How to see in the dark
Image: Kerry Downey, How to see in the dark, 2017, video still. Courtesy of the artist
How to see in the dark
Cuchifritos Gallery
Curated by Christian Camacho-Light
Opening: Friday, October 26 from 6-8p
On View: October 26 through December 9, 2018
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 12-6pm
Location: 120 Essex Street NY, NY 10002 (inside Essex Street Market)
SCREENING: Kerry Downey video "How to see in the dark,"
November 26, 7:30pm • 466 Grand Street
Presented in partnership with Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, Curated by 2017-18 AIRspace Curator in Residence, Abrons Arts Center
How to see in the dark looks to artists who share an interest in the politics of visibility. Toward these concerns, these artists make use of aesthetic and conceptual strategies that privilege the opaque, encrypted, or clandestine. Works in the exhibition negotiate tensions between representation and abstraction, assimilation and interference, action and withdrawal, mastery and unknowing. Folding into darkness, the exhibition invests in improvisational choreographies of refusal and failure, finding respite in the dissolution of figure-ground, near and far, and the thwarting of an easy read.