Barnett Cohen, may 24 2021, stickers, uv polycote, acrylic liquid polymer on canvas, 58 × 64 in
Principles of Existence
February 25 - March 22, 2022
With works by Chris Agnew, Giovanni Chiamenti, Eun Young Cho (Choey), Barnett Cohen, Katie Hubbell, Liva Isakson Lundin, Hyemi Kim, and Amber Helene Müller St. Thomas
Opening Reception: Friday, February 25, 6-8pm
NARS Main Gallery
Principles of Existence brings together a series of explorations on how relationships are organized and experienced. The insistence on coming together and on subverting the ways in which touch and connection can happen in our current days, prevail as essential needs.
The works in this exhibition stem from the observation of encounters -human and not human-, and from the negotiation between tensions, languages, forms of communication, imbalances, and losses that can come from these interactions.
Mostly research based, the processes of these artists consist of collecting and analyzing words, stories, places, objects, textures, landscapes, species and experiences that are meaningful, and question our need for coexistence, in order to reaffirm ourselves. The results are translated into painting, sculpture, installation, video, textiles, drawings and performance.