It's hard to keep your head above the coffee table', 2014 and 'Not the Mama' 2019 are showing @shivagallery.art
Curated by @macushla_r
"Working across media including sculpture, film, textile, photography and performance, the artists in this exhibition foreground the body’s gestural repertoire in a series of unique encounters. In its own way, each represents an (in)expressive vector of gender. Gathered together, they express softness, tenderness, resistance, refusal, illegibility, diffusion, and invitation in turn.
The exhibition’s title is taken from a poem by ee cummings, in which he proclaims “i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens.” While for cummings, this closing and opening is amorous, the push and pull that the poem teases out is present in every moment of our social lives; we all close and open ourselves as we move through the world, in ways that are intimate, social and political. There is both tenderness and violence threaded through these works. To be closed or opened holds potential for both; perhaps it is the very possibility of violence that makes the act of being open so intimate. Within each work, the body communicates, subverts expectations, troubles definitions, affirms and/or redefines itself. These works evoke gestural languages in the very movement of closing or opening."
Images by @studiobirdhaus 🙏
Thrilled to be showing with these artists:
Odette England
Zak Foster
Camilo Godoy
Sharon Hayes
Nadia Huggins
Clementine Keith-Roach
Danica I. J. Knežević
Freya Powell
Kenneth Tam
November 21, 2024 – February 20, 2024
Opening event: November 21, 2024
Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
860 11th Avenue, New York, NY, 10019
Gallery hours: 10am – 5pm, Monday to Friday
Anya & Andrew Shiva Gallery
860 11th Ave, New York (corner of 11th Ave and 59th st)
Danica I. J. Knežević, It's hard to keep your head above the coffee table, Installation Video Performance, 2014 Image by Brandon Perdomo @Studiobirdhouse
Danica I. J. Knežević, It's hard to keep your head above the coffee table, Installation Video Performance, 2014 Image by Brandon Perdomo @Studiobirdhouse
Danica I. J. Knežević, Not the Mama, Video Performance, 2019 Image by Brandon Perdomo @Studiobirdhouse