Summer Camp
Camp is an over-the-top, aesthetic sensibility that transforms morality, solemnity, and good taste into vulgarity, artificiality, and extravagance, animated by a sly sense of humor.
For the inaugural exhibition at Sargent鈥檚 Daughters new Tribeca location, we are thrilled to invite you to Summer Camp, an exuberant celebration of Camp aesthetics, curated by Allegra LaViola, Christine Nyce and Sofia Love.
This expansive, intergenerational exhibition turns a side-eye towards the trope of the 鈥渟ummer group show,鈥� eschewing its predictability and self-seriousness, and instead inviting twenty artists to have a good time and capture the frenetic, utopian energy of the summer.
The artists included in Summer Camp all reflect the concept of Camp in their work, whether via the subversion of art-historical tropes, maximalist refutations of good taste, or theatrical aesthetics. They also reflect Susan Sontag鈥檚 statement that 鈥淐amp taste is a kind of love, a love for human nature.鈥�
Sontag also acknowledges that Camp can be a verb, i.e. 鈥渢o Camp.鈥� So, it is not incorrect to say that Sargent鈥檚 Daughters is 鈥済oing Camping.鈥� Invite your friends.
Recommended for you
Camp is an over-the-top, aesthetic sensibility that transforms morality, solemnity, and good taste into vulgarity, artificiality, and extravagance, animated by a sly sense of humor.
For the inaugural exhibition at Sargent鈥檚 Daughters new Tribeca location, we are thrilled to invite you to Summer Camp, an exuberant celebration of Camp aesthetics, curated by Allegra LaViola, Christine Nyce and Sofia Love.
This expansive, intergenerational exhibition turns a side-eye towards the trope of the 鈥渟ummer group show,鈥� eschewing its predictability and self-seriousness, and instead inviting twenty artists to have a good time and capture the frenetic, utopian energy of the summer.
The artists included in Summer Camp all reflect the concept of Camp in their work, whether via the subversion of art-historical tropes, maximalist refutations of good taste, or theatrical aesthetics. They also reflect Susan Sontag鈥檚 statement that 鈥淐amp taste is a kind of love, a love for human nature.鈥�
Sontag also acknowledges that Camp can be a verb, i.e. 鈥渢o Camp.鈥� So, it is not incorrect to say that Sargent鈥檚 Daughters is 鈥済oing Camping.鈥� Invite your friends.
What's on nearby
