curation is an extension of practice. the same questions that organize my installations organize my exhibitions: how does a body move through space? what does light do to relation? where does attention naturally gather, and what happens when it is gently redirected? i approach curatorial work as i approach a site — with presence first, attending to what the space and the work ask of each other.
i am interested in exhibitions that function as rooms to be entered rather than objects to be viewed. the work of curation is to build conditions — for encounter, for slow looking, for the kind of attention that becomes awareness. the exhibition is not a display. it is a proposition.
i work with artists across generations, disciplines and backgrounds, drawn to practices rooted in care, labor, refusal and the quiet politics of making. connections between works are built through conversation and time rather than imposed through theme. the dialogue is multi-layered, sometimes oblique — held together by shared ethical commitments rather than formal similarity.
my curatorial practice is relational and unfolds slowly. i meet artists where they are. i ask what the work needs, what the space holds and what the community brings. i am interested in challenging artists toward new realizations within their own practice — not as authority but as collaborator, as someone who has also needed that challenge and knows what it costs.
i build programs that extend the exhibition beyond the wall — readings, conversations, workshops, durational gatherings — spaces where the visual opens into the collective. these are part of the work itself, building the conditions for relation to persist after the show closes.
what i am building through curatorial practice is the same thing i am building through installation, pedagogy and organizing: parallel structures where care is the operating logic, where artists are recognized as workers and thinkers, where the exhibition is a commons, a site of shared labor and shared time. these structures are fragile, often under-resourced, always ongoing.
i do not wait for permission to build them. and i do not curate alone.
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