Curated by poet, performance artist, and Beacon resident Edwin Torres, the exhibition will feature work by:
Elizabeth Castagna
Todd Colby
Matthew Friday
Renee Gladman
Charmaine Lee & Gryphon Rue
Shanzhai Lyric
Erika Mahr
Tamalyn Miller
Gabriela Salazar
Sasha Stiles
Edwin Torres
Yara Travieso
Cecilia Vicuña
Millicent Young
Zina Zinchenko
(your) body is a porous language : (our) embodied connections is an exhibition seeking transformative ways of relating through poetic structures. Works across and between disciplines traverse the permeable territory between bodies, emotions, words, and dimensions of physical architecture, the page, and virtual spaces. What curator Edwin Torres refers to as “language-making,” in the form of installation, sculpture, painting, drawing, digital media, movement, writing, poetry, fashion design, and sound art, simultaneously delineates and dissolves boundaries between mind, body, and environment.
Torres adds, "Our bodies are liquid vibrational forces that mirror the patterns of our human porosity, rewriting our connections with every move and utterance we choose. The transformative process of poetry's sense-shifting is a navigation between mind and body that art-making creates openings for. How we adapt to immediacy informs the architecture of our portals, embodying a poem’s dimension — to speak while listening. Across the many voices and forms gathered, this exhibit proposes how language-making can shape our willingness to interrogate a continually evolving world.”
Gallery Director Alison McNulty shared, “We are thrilled to welcome accomplished multidisciplinary poet, Edwin Torres, back to Ann Street Gallery as guest curator of our spring group exhibition. The curatorial role is an organic extension of Torres’ work, highlighting his brilliance as a poet and performer, building on his long-standing interest and engagement with visual and performing art and artists, and expanding his creative and thematic interests around space, language, materiality, sound, and the body into the 3D space of the gallery. We enthusiastically invite the public back to the gallery this spring to experience Torres’ ambitious, sensual, and intellectually rigorous group exhibition, along with an exciting series of programs also organized by Torres, including a poetry performance, a workshop, and an artist talk.”