“Dialectics of Entanglement: Do We Exist Together?” Exhibition

A.I.R. Gallery

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In honor of its 45th anniversary, A.I.R. Gallery presents The Unforgettables Program, which revisits and restages past A.I.R. shows that engage with themes that defy the passage of time and remain urgent to feminist discourse.

The third and final iteration of the 45th-anniversary program will be Dialectics of Entanglement: do we exist together? an exhibition in conversation with Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States.

Organized in 1980 by A.I.R. Gallery members Ana Mendieta and Kazuko Miyamoto together with the artist Zarina (Zarina Hashmi), the group show Dialectics of Isolation: An Exhibition of Third World Women Artists of the United States included works by Judith Baca, Beverly Buchanan, Janet Olivia Henry, Senga Nengudi, Lydia Okumura, Howardena Pindell, Selena W. Persico, and Zarina. According to Mendieta, the aim of the exhibition was to comment on the erasure of women of color in the American feminist movement that they helped to build. Rather than focus on the injustices of a racist society or a feminist movement that had become only for the white middle class, the exhibition pointed “more towards a personal will to continue being ‘other.’”