“Figural Realism” Exhibition

Jenkins Johnson Projects

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Jenkins Johnson Projects, New York presents Figural Realism, an exhibition curated by Meleko Mokgosi, featuring works by M’barek Bouhchichi, Armando Cortés, Sophie Harpo, Sophie Kovel, Orlee Malka, and Emily Velez Nelms.

“History, with all its concrete force, remains forever a figure, cloaked and needful of interpretation. In this light the history of no epoch ever has the practical self-sufficiency which, from the standpoint both of primitive man and of modern science, resides in the accomplished fact; all history, rather remains open and questionable, points to something still concealed, and the tentativeness of events in the figural interpretation is fundamentally different from the tentativeness of events in the modern view of historical development.”
- Erich Aurbach

Figural Realism takes its title from historian Hayden V. White’s book Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect (1998). In his book, White writes on scholar Erich Aurbach’s seminal work on mimesis and argues that history is always an incomplete and unstable project that depends on discursivity. White exposes the literariness of historical writing and the realism of literary writing, in order to further argue that what is conventionally understood as a history should always be contested. He puts forth that the “very distinction between literal and figurative speech is a purely conventionalist distinction and is to be understood by its relevance to the sociopolitical context in which it arises.”

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from November 05, 2022 to December 17, 2022

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