Cog•nate Collective (Amy Sanchez Arteaga and Misael Diaz), And will be again…, 2023
Elana Mann, Our work is never done (unfinished business), 2020-21
noé olivas, Rafaela (worker patch series), 2022
Elana Mann, Our work is never done (unfinished business), 2020-21 and Pia Camil, A Pot for a Latch, 2023
Kimi Hanauer, You, Stranger, May I Be Your Kin? The Terms of My Death, in Perpetuity, 2023
“How We Gather” Installation View
Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard, Making and Being, 2015–19
“How We Gather” Installation View
How We Gather
- VENUE Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego
- LOCATION La Jolla, CA
- DATES October 7-December 9, 2023
- URL mandevilleartgallery.ucsd.edu
- PUBLICATION cecimoss.com
ARTISTS
Zarouhie Abdalian, Adelita Husni-Bey, Pia Camil, Cog•nate Collective, Kimi Hanauer, Susan Jahoda and Caroline Woolard, Elana Mann, noé olivas, Nina Sarnelle and Selwa Sweidan, Alice Yuan Zhang
DESCRIPTION
The group exhibition How We Gather investigates the notion and enactment of solidarity across various contemporary artists’ practices through the lens of the pandemic. The state of emergency brought on by COVID-19 both magnified existing structures of precarity and inequity, while also strengthening social bonds. In the words of writer, activist, and artist Johanna Hedva, as a society we witnessed “what happens when care insists on itself, when the care of others becomes mandatory, when it takes up space and money and labor and energy.” The failures, shocks, and losses brought on by the pandemic revealed a deficit of care in numerous realms, inspiring many artists, activists, and theorists to reevaluate how their work can generate a greater responsibility to a collective body—a stronger sense of unity, collaboration, and mutuality. From conversations on “solidarity economics” to attempts to build “solidarity infrastructures,” this exhibition takes stock of what solidarity in the arts means today.
[Photos by Pablo Mason & Millie Root]