Title: Suspended State
Dates: February 1 - 15, 2004
Location: Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Co-Curated with Judy Ditner, Jen Mergel, Shariann Michael, Jenny Moore, and Simone Subal
Artists: Robert Longo, Gregory Crewdson, Janine Antoni, Giovanni Anselmo, Robert Morris, Mona Hatoum, Peter Campus, Eric Fischl and Aida Ruilova.
Co-curated first-year MA student exhibition featuring works by twelve artists from the Marieluise Hessel Collection. This exhibition presents one curatorial reading of selected works from the collection that explores a suspended moment through identifying resonant narrative threads, psychological qualities and physical attributes. Such works capture a pregnant moment- immanent yet offering no sign of immediate release. They evoke a sense of risk or mystery in the unknown which remains unresolved through the freezing of time and space but simultaneously opening up to reveal something new.
In essence, this exhibition will juxtapose such works to explore feelings inherent in the human condition: anticipation, anxiety, curiosity, insecurity, strangeness, vulnerability and wonder. The exhibition asks: How might the suspension of these feelings intensify their resonance? How might an artist create and use such situations to control this experience for the viewer. To that end, all of the chosen works depend upon the temporal, psychological and physical perception of the viewer; they anticipate the viewer’s reaction to complement and complete the experience.
In essence, this exhibition will juxtapose such works to explore feelings inherent in the human condition: anticipation, anxiety, curiosity, insecurity, strangeness, vulnerability and wonder. The exhibition asks: How might the suspension of these feelings intensify their resonance? How might an artist create and use such situations to control this experience for the viewer. To that end, all of the chosen works depend upon the temporal, psychological and physical perception of the viewer; they anticipate the viewer’s reaction to complement and complete the experience.
