In Practice: Material Deviance
2017
In Practice is SculptureCenter's annual open-call exhibition for emerging artists with a focus on the production of new work. Informed by encounters with the quotidian, unassuming stuff of life and its circulation, the artists included in Material Deviance connect material and bodily processes with social and infrastructural ones. The artists look to irregularities, glitches, gaps, residues, and altered states - either found or enacted - as a means of accessing the latent histories of materials in order to expose underlying systems of power, regulation, value, and control. While these systems inevitably shape the movement of bodies through the world (both at the level of the individual and the social), the works on view reveal the cracks where counter-movements and improvisational modes of being and perceiving are possible.
Curated by SculptureCenter's 2017 Curatorial Fellow Alexis Wilkinson.
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