School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Consuming Entities,” a juried exhibition of multidisciplinary works by eight SVA students and alumni. Organized by SVA Galleries, the exhibition will be on view online from Tuesday, August 3, through Monday, August 23, at galleries.sva.edu.

“Consuming Entities” features eight artists using commercial products and displays as vehicles for personal narratives. In this exhibition, artists examine the role of the consumer within a transactional world. These works study the processes of consumerism while contemplating the preoccupation and potential loss of perspective induced by the pursuit of constant acquisition. A nuanced commentary on our present times emerges through the appropriation and ingestion of raw and manufactured objects, often used to create the pieces themselves. These artists critically analyze cultural urges to obtain new content and possessions while considering their own relation to these systems of desire through illustrations, photographs, videos, and sculptural installations.

Artists featured in this exhibition are Flora Bai (MFA 2021 Illustration as Visual Essay), Kakei Chong (MFA 2021 Design), Yan Jin (MFA 2021 Photography, Video and Related Media), Sohee Kim (MFA 2021 Fine Arts), Changhe Liu (MFA 2021 Photography, Video and Related Media), Mengmeng Ma (student, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media; BFA 2020 Photography and Video), Alexander Si (MFA 2021 Fine Arts) and Xuemeng Zhang (student, MFA Photography, Video and Related Media).

Exhibition

Consuming Entities

SVA Online Gallery