Friday, June 7, 2024 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Incubation Series "Beyond Archive" Opening Reception
Curated by Lynette Qiuyang Shen and Star Yixin Song
Incubation Series #23, hosted by PRACTICE gallery, 319 N 11th St. Philadelphia, PA 19107
OPENING RECEPTION:
June 7th, 2024, 6-9 pm
PERFORMANCE by marta rodríguez maleck at 7pm
HOURS: Saturday & Sunday 2-6pm
What exists beyond the reach of documented history? Departing from state-sanctioned,institutionally maintained materials, "Beyond Archive" presents three artists who extend theboundaries of archives through fabricated historical dioramas, cartography rooted in privatememories, and the naming and writing of ethnic, gendered bodies. Through the mediums ofphotography, sculpture, performance, and video installation, Jewan Goo, Gayoung Lee, and marta rodríguez maleck evoke questions on the ethics of alternative archives. Couldremembering, forgetting, and reinventing the past be a remedy? What echoes do they cast uponthe future?
"Beyond Archive" features the work of UPenn MFA candidates and is co-organized by LynetteQiuyang Shen and Star Yixin Song. It is the twenty-third exhibition in the Incubation Series—astudent-led initiative that fosters new ways of making, exhibiting, and seeing art. This exhibitionis made possible with the generous support of the College Center for Visual Culture and theDepartment of the History of Art at Bryn Mawr College, and The Sachs Program for ArtsInnovation, the Department of the History of Art, School of Arts and Sciences, and theDepartment of Fine Arts, Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.