Gaia Tedone

Foreclosed. Between Crisis and Possibility

Opening Reception: Friday, May 20, 5–8 pm

May 20 – June 11, 2011. Exhibition Hours: Tues-Fri, 12-6 pm; Sat 11-6 pm FREE

Although “foreclosure” is now associated primarily with the collapse of the subprime mortgage market and the current financial crisis, the term has other implications. From a social and psychoanalytic perspective, foreclosure connotes the rejection and exclusion of particular experiences, memories, and narratives. This exhibition is situated at the nexus of these multiple meanings. Cutting across the systemic and the subjective, the spatial and the psychic, the exhibition engages the politically paralyzing rhetoric of crisis by positing and negotiating alternative possibilities. A multilayered curatorial approach is employed, integrating the gallery space with a series of public platforms. These include discussions, performances, and film screenings, interrogating different interpretations of the term foreclosure. Together, these platforms propose a critical reevaluation of the complex field that the term foreclosure demands.

With works by Kamal Aljafari, Yto Barrada, Tania Bruguera, Claude Closky, Harun Farocki, Allan Sekula, and David Shrigley

Curated by Jennifer Burris, Sofía Olascoaga, Sadia Shirazi, and Gaia Tedone.

Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program

Public Platforms and Events:

Forgotten Spaces – a film screening and conversation with Allan Sekula and David Harvey

Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 4 pm
The Cooper Union, Rose Auditorium, 41 Cooper Square, New York, NY

Foreclosure/Foreclosed – a conversation with Harriet Fraad, Ingrid Gould Ellen and Maggie Russel-Ciardi

Tuesday May 31, 2011 at 7pm
The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY

Immigrant Movement International – an event by Tania Bruguera

Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 7 pm
The Kitchen Auditorium, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY       Immigrant Movement International is co-sponsored by CREATIVE TIME and the Queens Museum of Art

City as Stage – a conversation with Tania Bruguera, Peter Marcuse, Damon Rich and Radhika Subramaniam

Saturday, June 11, 2011 at 3pm The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY