Abrons Arts Center is pleased to present Subject To Capital, a group exhibition featuring works by artists who explore the intersections of power, subjectivity and capitalism.
The exhibition was curated by Performance Studies PhD candidate Joshua Lubin-Levy and features work by PhD candidate Aliza Shvarts.
Drawing on feminist and queer methodologies, the artists featured in Subject To Capital both illuminate and circumvent the violence of a capitalist logic. Utilizing perceptual, visceral, and mediatized strategies, the collected works unmoor a given sense of subjectivity as fixed or singular while simultaneously hypothesizing alternative modes of representation. If being “subject to” calls to mind subjugation and contingency, then the forms of subjectivity proposed by the collected works refuses any easy recognition. It is ultimately not a matter of who is seen in these works, but how they unfold the subject as a site that may be traversed by interruptions, and even resistances, to the smooth functioning of capitalism.
WHEN: March 3, 2016 - April 17, 2016
WHERE: Abron Arts Center, 466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street)