What if we lose the ground
Febrary 8 - 25, 2024
Accent Sisters
157A First Street, Studio 206, Jersey City, NJ
Artists: Janine Brown, Lisa Lee Freeman, Maria Markham,
Melanie Brewster, Nayven Vignette, Shuai Yang, Youyi Echo Yan
Curated by Yuyue (Eunice) Chen
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Imagine your body floating, falling, and swirling in mid-air; the lines of the horizon you see would break up,
twirl around, and superimpose. Traditional modes of seeing and feeling are shattered. As Hito Steyerl wrote in
In Free Fall: Thought Experiments in Vertical Perspective, “We cannot assume any stable ground on which to
base metaphysical claims or foundational political myths. At best, we are faced with temporary, contingent, and
partial attempts at grounding.”
What If We Lose the Ground presents a new approach to understanding the body's navigation, expanding the
perception of spatial and experiential dimensions. By positioning the body as a reference point, the artists
construct a coordinate system that mediates material and spiritual realm. Through techniques such as kitchen
witchcraft, mapmaking, and digital visualization, the featured artworks explore the reflections of visuality and
domesticated space, female body and mythical images, as well as legacy and digital technologies. The
exhibition is not only about the transformation of physical form but encompasses the full spectrum of life's
uncertainties, from cosmological phenomena to social dynamics.
如果地面消失，你的身体在空中漂浮、坠落、或旋转，你看到水平线变得破碎、扭曲或重叠，传统的观看和感 知模式被彻底打破，线性透视不复存在。就像黑特·史特耶尔在《自由落体：垂直视角的思想实验》一文中写 道，“我们不能假设任何稳定的地面用以承载形而上的主张或奠基性的政治神话。充其量，我们面临的是暂时的、偶然的、部分的触地尝试。”
展览“如果，地面消失”提出一种用身体导航，探索时空的新方式。艺术家将身体作为参照点，建立融合现实与精神的坐标系。展览作品通过厨房巫术、地图制作和数字可视化等不同技术媒介，衡量被驯化的家庭空间，诠释女性身体和神话图像的关联，同时也探讨未来科技的不确定性。展览不仅涉及物质形态的转变，还探索从宇宙现象到社会动态中的各种不确定性。
