Feb 28

Beam, 2019
BFA thesis group show
Artists: Defne Cemal, Samhita Kamisetty, Kara Kendall, Ariadne Manuel, Hannah Murphy, Adriana Orrantia, Gabriel Rosen, Kayley Saade, David Stapleton
Commons and Rosenberg Gallery
New York, NY

Curated by Terike Hapoja
Photography by David Stapleton

About: “The following is an exhibition of work created in our final year of the Studio Art BFA program at NYU. We claim no concept, or set of concepts, as being totally representative of our practices. Instead we propose a series of concepts, which - crisscrossing and overlapping - stretch out and link our practices in a web. Some intersections in this web includes words such as "process", "truth", "reality," and "science." Others are "dirt", "remnants", "decay" and "fluctuations." Each point in this web gets its meaning from other points, and the architecture of the entire structure is dynamic. This kind of conceptualization is, in our view, closer to the world. It recognizes distinctions while preserving the mutability of things. Institutional demarcations, for example, become here a stubborn desire to keep the dynamic architecture of conceptual structures' rigid, and immutable. If this exhibition is a beam, it is one which supports many structures at once.”