A Quiet Place
A quiet place,
a silent place,
a dream—a pause.
Featuring Artwork by
Paul Kingsley Squire ∙ Tejbir Singh ∙ Francesca Busca ∙ Atom Hovhanesyan ∙ Satomi Sugimoto ∙ Mary Di Iorio ∙ Thorsten Boehm ∙ Gus Fine Art ∙ Angeles Gonzalez ∙ Mathieu Nozieres ∙ Philip Mckay ∙ Weiting Wei ∙ Vanja Basic ∙ Asta Caplan ∙ Wolfgang Bellingradt ∙ Michael Ian Goulding ∙ Marshall Gould ∙ Giacomo Giannelli ∙ Haimi Fenichel ∙ Svetlana Melik-Nubarova ∙ Egon Gade ∙ Catherine Pickop ∙ Newel Hunter ∙ Jingfeng Li ∙ Sam Barrow ∙ Ola Lis ∙ Eva Cocco ∙ Carmen Rey ∙ Gary Wagner ∙ Elizabeth Frank ∙ Stéphane Vereecken ∙ Anne Jeffery ∙ Jaco Putker ∙ Moving Elephant by Mark ∙ Zu Sheng Yu ∙ Zephyra Vun
Brief by the Curator
Violently engaged in a participatory culture that requires us to be constantly connected, our minds are incessantly bombarded with an array of unsolicited information pleading for emotional reaction. The media has become a cacophony of commercial and political propaganda never ceasing to deliver us personally-outfitted messages aiming to reach our pockets or our darkest feelings.
Our social instinct of belonging has been downgraded to a bunch of pixels forming an upward-pointing-thumb.
Whether we lack the understanding of how our collected data can become the collective enemy, or whether we are willingly letting it be gathered for the sake of a bit more comfort in our lives, the cost of our digital habits is about to equal the loss not only of our political democracy, but of our true identities altogether. Can you truly form your own identity when you are constantly occupied with what others are, say, do, think, or want you to be, say, do or think?
What becomes the purpose of art in a society constantly soliciting our emotional reactions?
What can a simple quiet moment of gazing offer to our tirelessly assessing eyes?
Can art provide solitude? Can an image guide us into peacefulness?
Can we find ourselves a quiet place through art?
Myrina Tunberg Georgiou,
CFA Director
November 2019