Join us for an opening reception for Only If We Wish To, a group exhibition curated by Equity Gallery’s Curatorial Residency Workshop.

Curators:

Shane Allen, Cecilia André, Shwarga Bhattacharjee, Hadassah Backman, Gosha Karpowicz, A. Morgan McKendry, Alison Pirie

Artists:

Nir Arieli, Adalgisa Campos, Lucille Colin, Anna Cone, Máiréad Delaney, Jen Dwyer, Avihay "Bichof" Edry, Dawn Kramlich, Ahmed Kabir Kishore, Jessica Matier, Yeji Moon, Kris Rac, Diana Schmertz, Natacha Voliakovsky, Racheal Wren

Only If We Wish To

As we begin to emerge from a collective experience many of us are transformed. We have become more open and vulnerable as we undergo a reawakening and a healing metamorphosis. This exhibition displays a variety of works including sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, paintings, and drawings that challenge our existing perceptions of society, nature, and the individual.   

Only If We Wish To brings together 15 artists of various backgrounds united by works that decontextualize and undress the layered complexities that center around forms, systems, bodies, freedom, and communal empathy. Each work is a relic; marking a different moment in time, a place on a map, or an expression of the human form, coming together to create a collective sense of understanding of our shared and disparate experiences.

The suspension before a release of energy: a feeling, an idea, an act of bravery, needs to gestate before it catalyzes. Twisting, constructing, and manipulating the threads of fate that intertwine each of us, our artists fabricate a recontextualized meaning of a common world. The works contemplate and give voice to our innate wish to communicate our inner dialogue of how we exist as individuals impacted by socioeconomic conditioning. 
The gallery serves as a chrysalis purporting to us new depths of perception. Only If We Wish To is an entryway into a realm of reflection and insight, meditating upon our human need for freedom: freedom to exist in this multi-cultural complicated world, to feel and share our individual autonomous experiences, examining how we connect to each other.