Exhibition

School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Non-Sovereign Poetics,” an exhibition of thesis work by the MFA Fine Arts class of 2024, curated by Andrew Paul Woolbright and organized by Isabelle Schipper. The exhibition will be on view Thursday, July 25, through Saturday, August 10, at the SVA Chelsea Gallery, 601 West 26th Street, 15th Floor, New York City.

“Non-Sovereign poetics are anti-leviathan,” says Woolbright of the exhibition. “They are anti-canon, anti-reverence, anti-continuance. They are light but sharp—the shape of a rock in a shoe or the space in between the words of oral histories. They are the quick bounce-back of jester’s privilege, the rupture felt from feedback loops and forms repeating until they are abolished. They choose liveness and all that it risks over the dead encounters of static entities. They project images culled from internet subcultures over the storage lockers of museums. They do all of this out of necessity and the knowledge that each new idyll will be hard-won. They do all of this from the memory of what has already been lost and the imaginary of what can hopefully be gained.”

Presenting work by Lulu Luyao Chang, Yuanjie Chen, Jon Copes, Jamie Gustavson, Erin Hayde, Seraphin Hedges, Greg Herbowy, Tyson Houseman, Ahyun Jeon, Bitna Jung, Hongbin Kim, Yong Eun May Kwon, Orange Li, Tina Mitchell, Jusun Jessie Seo, Minji Seo, Giorgi Shalikashvili, Kun Kyung Sok, Guy Nechmad Stern, Al Svoboda, Emily Theis, Zoe Toscano, Luis Valenzuela, Xiaoxiao Wu, Shawn Xiao, Yi Xu, Zeyu Xue and Ethan Zhao.

kenopsia, a live video performance by Tyson Houseman, will take place in the gallery on Thursday, July 25, 5:30 – 6:00pm.

The SVA Chelsea Gallery is open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, from 10:00am to 6:00pm, Mondays by appointment, and closed on Sundays. It is fully accessible by wheelchair.