SightUnseen 

23rd Mar 2017 - 1st Apr 2017 

March 23 – April 1 2017: Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London UK

 

SightUnseen responds to the current instability of visual perception – in which the ocular has come to govern all other means of knowing, yet is simultaneously violently undermined by the proliferating regimes of simulation, virtuality and visualisation, which rest on the eye's capability and dominion. The exhibition probes the broader philosophical and experiential vocabularies that have always existed around sight and sightlessness (denoting for example the realm of the imagination, the sceptical attitude, or profound spiritual understanding), to find ways of opening up new avenues for artistic experimentation and questioning.

If we exist in a binary between, on the one hand, the frenzied compulsion to be seen and, on the other, the profound anxiety that it is impossible to be invisible, how can we break this up to create new ways of knowing – and with them new futures?

SightUnseen is curated by Christina Mamakos and features Åsa Johannesson, Janina Lange, Christina Mamakos and Bridget Smith. It will be accompanied by a publication edited by the artists with Pauline van Mourik Broekman.

SightUnseen is funded by TECHNE/AHRC and hosted by the Royal College of Art, where it will be on view at the Dyson Gallery from 23 March – 1 April 2017

SightUnseen: sight.unseen.rca@gmail.com

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