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March 7, 2025
Exploring the Creative Dimensions of Season I, 2025 NARS International Residency Artists
Organized by NARS Curatorial Fellow Joyous R. Pierce
Friday, March 7, 3-8 PM
NARS Studios & Main Gallery
The New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation is pleased to present Expanding Spaces: Exploring the Creative Dimensions of Season I, 2025 NARS International Residency Artists, a day of programming organized by the NARS Curatorial Fellow Joyous Pierce.
As part of the NARS Art in Dialogue public programs series, please join us and immerse yourself in the creative worlds of the Season I, 2025 International Residency Artists. With artist talks, a film screening and interactive engagements, Expanding Spaces offers a deeper look into their practices, inviting you to connect directly with their process, explore their ideas, and witness how their work transforms space, perspective, and storytelling.
Learn more about the Season I, 2025 Residency Exhibition: Shifting /\ Gazes
03:00-04:00 PM Gloria Fan Duan, Beyond Perception: Speculative Realities in Art and Technology, Studio 418
04:30-06:00 PM Inbar Hagai, Captured Show, A Screening and Conversation with Rich Pell, Founder, Executive Director & Curator of the Center for Post Natural History in Pittsburgh, PA, Studio 410
06:30-07:30 PM Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge, Karine Locatelli & Jiyoung Song, Tele-portal perspectives, NARS Main Gallery
08:00 PM - Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge, Window Gazing, Exterior of NARS Building (Across the street on 46th St)
Join artist and researcher Gloria Fan Duan for an engaging conversation on the intersection of art, science, and technology in her studio and laboratory-based practice. In this talk, she will discuss her speculative approach and research process in rendering the unseen—merging organic and synthetic elements to create uncanny visual vocabularies that challenge our perception of reality.
Captured Show (working title) is an ongoing documentary project following the customs of rabbit shows in the US. During the past two years, artist and filmmaker Inbar Hagai has been documenting the different components this subculture of competitive rabbit breeding contains, including the meticulous practices and skills of breeding and judging rabbits, the culture of the rabbit showrooms, and the dynamics of the breeders' community. Throughout the project, Hagai attempts to trace the backgrounds and motivations for breeding and showing rabbits, which can not be plainly explained either by agricultural needs or financial incentives. By following this particular, seemingly esoteric realm of domestication, breeding, and instrumentalization of nonhuman animals, Hagai aims to reflect on a larger human drive to control, categorize, and perfect.
Through their creative works, Evelyne Leblanc-Roberge, Karine Locatelli & Jiyoung Song offer a multi-layered exploration of perception and movement—inviting us to consider how images, spaces, and bodies can function as portals, shifting our sense of place and self. This conversation will explore their intersections, methodologies, and how their work engages with the act of looking, moving, and being in the world.
**On your way out of NARS, you are invited to cross the street (46th) and to look up at the south-west corner of the building**
NARS Foundation Galleries are open to the public from 12pm - 5pm, Monday - Friday. Please contact info@narsfoundation.org with any other inquires.
NARS exhibition programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and, in part, supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
