BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn Presents 'the no place' at BRIC Rotunda Gallery
December 09, 2009
The exhibition conjures unseen, inaccessible, and politically charged spaces to create a dialogue about utopias and dystopias.
Brooklyn, NY – BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn’s first exhibition of 2010 is the no place, a group exhibition featuring the work of six contemporary artists who conjure utopian and dystopian environments in distinct ways to explore such issues as geo-political conflict, human rights, urban development, the environment, and most broadly, how we comprehend and utilize physical space. Curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, Director of Contemporary Art at BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, the no place opens on Wednesday, January 20, 2010. The opening will feature a pre-opening dialogue with exhibition artist and social activist Paula Luttringer at 6 pm about art and the depiction of trauma by enforced political disappearance, followed by a reception from 7 to 9 pm. The exhibition will be on view through Saturday, March 6.
In this era of globalization and digital communication, seemingly limitless information exists about the physical world and the events that take place in it. The advent of Google maps and other web mapping projects means that it is possible to view much of the world from a laptop or cellular phone, and to comprehend both vast sweeps of the landscape and the smallest minutiae. Nevertheless, much remains unseen. The world is full of hidden spaces – places that are simply geographically inaccessible, restricted due to political conflict, or made out of bounds because of the furtive activities taking place within them.
Working in varied media (photography, sculpture, video, and works on paper) and with diverse approaches (social activist projects, Internet research, urban exploration, and interviews and oral histories), exhibition artists Liset Castillo, Nathan Kensinger, Paula Luttringer, Jenny Polak, Blane de St. Croix and J.G. Zimmerman have produced poetic visualizations of unseen, the inaccessible, and politically charged spaces.
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