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Mama/Curator/Artist/Writer/Don Dada dealing in multitudes.
Buffalo, NY raised
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$While many reviews out there investigate the granular works of the Carnegie International, @mstarafay takes a different approach - reckoning with the thematic undercurrents and how they execute what they preach. “The idea of “unbound borders” runs throughout the exhibition, bringing together artists working across geographies and engaging cultural and political conditions that exceed national frameworks. There is a clear investment in the movement of people, materials, and histories. But that movement is still organized, gathered, curated, and made legible within spaces that depend on coherence. The exhibition reaches toward borderlessness while making the idea’s limits quite visible. This tension is most pronounced in how collectivity is framed. “We” is offered as something that emerges through proximity and relation, but collectivity does not simply appear when works are placed in conversation. I view the idea of collectivity as something that’s built and can fracture under difficult conditions. It requires negotiation, responsibility, and a willingness to stay present when things don’t align. Like past iterations of the International, the exhibition unfolds as a series of encounters rather than a unified whole. Artists are brought into proximity, their works resonating across differences. The parallels that surface across labor, migration, and memory remain uneven. They are shaped by specific histories that do not fully resolve into a shared identity, and materials carry much of that weight.“ Read the rest at petrichorpittsburgh.com✨$

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In “Blue as a Condition,” Tara Fay Coleman ( @mstarafay ) frames blue as an emotional climate shaped by grief, endurance, & Pittsburgh’s rivers. Read the full essay on Project Blue Space.

Image credit: Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908–1998), Intersection of Wylie Avenue and Fullerton Street with Blue Note Cafe and Goode Pharmacy, on foggy night, Hill District, c. 1945–1965. Heinz Family Fund. Courtesy Carnegie Museum of Art, Teenie Harris Archive

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