NOT NOW BUT NOW
MFA Preview Exhibition
January 11 - February 3, 2024
The first MFA in Visual Arts group exhibition held in the Mandeville Art Gallery since 2015, NOT NOW BUT NOW features six emerging artists who reckon with the impossibility of now through urgent evocations of past and future.
Spanning photography, film/video, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, and performance, the works in the exhibition reimagine communal archives and ancestral histories, contest colonial narratives of progress and discovery, and portray the body as defiantly present, undergoing constant movement and transformation.
Participating Artists:
Deanna Barahona, JAX, Jun!yi Min, Naomi Nadreau, Chanell Stone, Nathan Storey
[Installation photography by Adrian-Dre Diaz and Millie Root]
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NO AHORA SINO AHORA
Vista previa de la exposición del MFA
Deanna Barahona, JAX, Jun!yi Min, Naomi Nadreau, Chanell Stone, Nathan Storey
La primera exposición grupal del MFA en Artes Visuales montada en la Mandeville Art Gallery desde el 2015, NO AHORA SINO AHORA presenta a seis artistas emergentes que se enfrentan con la imposibilidad del ahora a través de evocaciones apremiantes del pasado y del futuro.
La muestra abarca desde la fotografía, el cine/video, el grabado, la escultura, el dibujo hasta la performance. Las obras de la exhibición reimaginan archivos comunitarios e historias ancestrales, refutan las narrativas coloniales de progreso y de descubrimiento y retratan al cuerpo de forma transgresiva en el presente, un cuerpo sometido al movimiento constante y a la trasformación.
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Public Programs
All events are free and take place in person at the Mandeville Art Gallery, unless indicated otherwise.
Thursday, January 11, 2024, 6-8 pm: NOT NOW BUT NOW Opening Celebration RSVP
Featuring a performance of “a practice for a home without a ceiling” by Jun!yi Min at 7:30pm. For this piece, Min recants childhood memories that revolve around an intimate relationship with a piece of clothing in a house of domestic tension, care, play, and loss. Audience members are expected to shift throughout the performance, from viewer to participant, stationary to moving. There will be mentions of death and parental disciplinary actions.
Saturday, February 3, 2024, 2pm-3pm: Closing performance of “a practice for a home without a ceiling” by Jun!yi Min
ARTIST-LED TOUR RESCHEDULED: Saturday, February 3, 2024 at 3pm, following Jun!yi Min's performance