Exhibition Info
Curated by Kelly Schroer, 2014 Recipient of BRIC’s Emerging Curator Fellowship
The air we swim in was on view in the Project Room of BRIC House. The exhibition was curated by Kelly Schroer, 2014 recipient of BRIC’s Emerging Curator Fellowship, supporting and fostering the vision of a developing curator. The exhibition focused on artists who create physical interactions with intangible elements that inhabit our same space, but are invisible to the human eye. The exhibition featured artists Hanny Ahern, Thessia Machado,Eric Shows, and Palden Weinreb.
The title of the exhibition was sourced from Thessia Machado’s artist statement, in which she describes her visual interest in sound waves. This fascination with invisible elements in the air acts as a starting point in expressing our human need to make sense of the world around us. Through drawing, sculpture, and interactive installations, the artists exhibited in The air we swim in created tactile sensations out of sound waves, energy and light waves, breath, and microscopic particles. Thessia Machado’s interactive sculptures/instruments expressed sound as “malleable and responsive, physical matter;” Palden Weinreb attempted to solidify the properties of light waves in two dimensions, using graphite and wax; Eric Shows’ installation used light as a point source that projects through glass, revealing surface variations and creating sound as a direct result; and Hanny Ahern visualized breath through an interactive installation/sculpture using sensors and light bulbs. Through their engagement with unseen waves and particles, we are reminded of both our shortcomings and power as human beings.