Non-Sovereign Poetics
School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents 鈥淣on-Sovereign Poetics,鈥 an exhibition of thesis work by the MFA Fine Arts class of 2024, curated by Andrew Paul Woolbright and organized by Isabelle Schipper. The exhibition will be on view Thursday, July 25, through Saturday, August 10, at the SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 West 26th Street, 15th Floor, New York City.
鈥淣on-Sovereign poetics are anti-leviathan,鈥 says Woolbright of the exhibition. 鈥淭hey are anti-canon, anti-reverence, anti-continuance. They are light but sharp鈥攖he shape of a rock in a shoe or the space in between the words of oral histories. They are the quick bounce-back of jester鈥檚 privilege, the rupture felt from feedback loops and forms repeating until they are abolished. They choose liveness and all that it risks over the dead encounters of static entities. They project images culled from internet subcultures over the storage lockers of museums. They do all of this out of necessity and the knowledge that each new idyll will be hard-won. They do all of this from the memory of what has already been lost and the imaginary of what can hopefully be gained.鈥
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School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents 鈥淣on-Sovereign Poetics,鈥 an exhibition of thesis work by the MFA Fine Arts class of 2024, curated by Andrew Paul Woolbright and organized by Isabelle Schipper. The exhibition will be on view Thursday, July 25, through Saturday, August 10, at the SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 West 26th Street, 15th Floor, New York City.
鈥淣on-Sovereign poetics are anti-leviathan,鈥 says Woolbright of the exhibition. 鈥淭hey are anti-canon, anti-reverence, anti-continuance. They are light but sharp鈥攖he shape of a rock in a shoe or the space in between the words of oral histories. They are the quick bounce-back of jester鈥檚 privilege, the rupture felt from feedback loops and forms repeating until they are abolished. They choose liveness and all that it risks over the dead encounters of static entities. They project images culled from internet subcultures over the storage lockers of museums. They do all of this out of necessity and the knowledge that each new idyll will be hard-won. They do all of this from the memory of what has already been lost and the imaginary of what can hopefully be gained.鈥
Artists on show
- Yong Eun May Kwon
- Ales Svoboda
- Bitna Jung
- Emily Theis
- Erin Hayde
- Ethan Zhao
- Giorgi Shalikashvili
- Greg Herbowy
- Guy Nechmad Stern
- Hongbin Kim
- Jamie Gustavson
- Jeon Ahyun
- Jessie Seo
- Jon Copes
- Kun Kyung Sok
- Luis Valenzuela
- Lulu Luyao Chang
- Minji Seo
- Orange Li
- Seraphin Hedges
- Shawn Xiao
- Tina Mitchell
- Tyson Houseman
- Xiaoxiao Wu
- Xu Yi
- Yuanjie Chen
- Zeyu Xue
- Zoe Toscano