curation is an extension of studio 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 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 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 grow out of conversation and time. the dialogue is multi-layered, sometimes oblique — held together by shared ethical commitments more than formal likeness.
i meet artists where they are. i ask what the work needs, what the space holds and what the community brings. i challenge artists toward new realizations within their own practice, as a collaborator — someone who has also needed that challenge and knows what it costs. writing is part of this. exhibition essays and close readings extend the conversation and keep a record of it.
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, building the conditions for relation to persist after the show closes.
since 1998 this has taken many forms: artist-run galleries in binghamton and brooklyn, a university gallery in virginia, a museum without walls in new york, residencies and exhibitions from london to mumbai. across all of them, the exhibition is a commons — a site of shared labor and shared time, where artists are recognized as workers and thinkers.
i do not wait for permission to build these spaces. and i do not curate alone.
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