Artists

Alex Margo Arden, Edgar Calel, Helen Chadwick, Hamishi Farah, Deborah-Joyce Holman, Sang Woo Kim

Press release

Arcadia Missa is excited to present Recital, the inaugural exhibition in our new 1st floor gallery space.

For this group exhibition, we are looking at the notion of performativity from the perspective of the artwork and the act that it fulfills. The “performativity” here is not defined by any strict set of aesthetic terms, but instead looks at the process of making the work in relation to the purpose it fulfills within the context of being shown in the gallery space, to an audience. At the forefront is the performativity of the artwork itself and its transformative capacity.

Upon entering the room, one is followed by Sang Woo’s You’re looking at me 003—we are looked back upon by the painting and our position as a viewer is marked as an active state, a consuming force. This act of viewership-as-surveillance, or our interaction with the work itself, become the terms on which we enter the exhibition.