🗝🚪🕳🛋 studio this week.
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questions on preservation, conservation, artifacts, history, memory, value, materiality, vulnerability, metaphors, & trace
It’s been such a joy and privilege working with amazing curators and artists to make this ambitious project happen. Please join me and my fellow @cefalonia.nw team, @specialist_sea, @studioegallery, and @soilart for the opening reception/kick off of Becoming American tonight at Specialist! .
Korakrit Arunanondchai, With history in a room filled with people with funny names 4, 2017, HD Video, Courtesy of the artist and Clearing Gallery, New York.
#becomingamericanexhibition #specialist #korakritarunanondchai #seattleartfair #seattleartfair2018 #pioneersquare
They’ve been gutted of their meaning.
They exist for the other.
Their bodies were for others, and their skin made to endure.
We don’t know what they once held or held onto.
All that remains is a trace of a foregone presence, an empty space filled with the weight of the absence.
There, in that in-between space, through the cracks, a potential for selfhood emerges, negotiating their remnant objecthood with their pronounced subjectivity.
They are artifacts, reminders for renewal, forever-archiving dusts of the present.
