“(Un)belonging” Exhibition

Galerie Lelong

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Galerie Lelong & Co., New York presents (Un)belonging, a group exhibition presenting both historic and new works by Etel Adnan, Ficre Ghebreyesus, Jane Hammond, Alfredo Jaar, Rosemary Laing, Athena LaTocha, Ana Mendieta, Zilia Sánchez, Michelle Stuart, Barthélémy Toguo, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. The works in the exhibition site the establishment of identity through the precarity of place; investigating the politics of belonging to locales both physical and invisible.

Commanding the gallery space is Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Poliscar Variant 2 (1991/2017), a contemporary rendition of the artist’s 1991 generative work Poliscar, which underscores the exclusion of the homeless from their environment while providing a meaningful means of participation. The title of the work comes from the Greek word polis for city-state, which refers more to the social structure of a community and the participation of its citizens than to a specific institution or place. The Poliscar is a three-wheeled vehicle that looks like a tank, fitted with a motor to facilitate habitability and movability. While Poliscar makes the homeless visible in public space, Wodiczko’s interrogative design extends beyond marking the urban landscape to include various communication tools contained inside, intended to establish a network among homeless people.