& Paradigms
September 29, 2003 - November 15, 2003
Main Gallery:
Artists include: Binga, Ricardo A. Bracho, Karlos Carcamo, Enrique Cruz, Alex Donis, e-mael, Ricardo Francis, Derek Jackson,
Terence Koh (formerly asianpunkboy), Glenn Ligon, Ivan Monforte, Kori Newkirk, Luna Luis Ortiz, Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa (aka
Devil Bunny), Susan Smith-Pinelo, Steed Taylor, and Jorge Veras.
Project Room:
Videos by: Michel Auder, Candice Breitz, Patty Chang, Rubén Gutiérrez, Patrick Jolley and Reynold Reynolds, Miranda July,
Chloe Piene, and Karen Yasinsky. Guest curator: Louky Keijsers
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| This exhibition is on the down low.
For purposes here, the “down low,” or “dl” for
short, is urban vernacular/hip-hop slang for things done secretly and/or
quietly, something under the radar,
on the hush-hush, in hiding, on the Q.T. Contradictions abound when something
that usually should not be acknowledged or is trying not to be conspicuous
is all of a sudden the topic of discussion, featured in the news, or put
on display. In many ways, DL should not even exist, so the challenge was
to produce something like an elusive, thematic exhibition.
The call and response. Public attention recently has addressed subject matter
related to men of color who have relationships on the low with other
men, but
do not identify as “gay” or “bisexual”, along
with the disproportionately high rates of new cases of HIV infection
among communities of color, including Black and Latina women. The responses
to this correlation has been fierce among African American writers,
including Jason King and Keith Boykin, who have stressed that the media
frenzy around the down low demonizes Black men as irresponsible sexual
predators and characterizes their female partners as submissive, naïve
victims. This is DL’s point of departure and return, its complicated
phenomenon based on reality. |
Exhibition Press
Art AsiaPacific - Winter 04
Art & Understanding - 2/04
New York Times - 12/28/03
Time Out New York -10/30/03
New Museum Pick - 10/03
New York Times - 10/24/03
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