Artists

Utsa Hazarika, Ayesha Kamal Khan, Sophie Kovel, Emilio Martínez Poppe

Press release

pre-determine identities, histories, and the flow of information; 

closed systems whose mechanisms fall flat when dealing with matter outside imperialist global structures; 

precarious postcolonial formations which gesture—in ways incomplete and provisional—towards dissenting ways of being in contemporary culture and global politics.

Refindable Places is a co-organized exhibition that developed out of an ongoing reading group of artists investigating the politics of place. The exhibition takes a definitional point of departure responding to the term “refindable place” as articulated by Edward Said in “Imaginative Geography and Its Representation.” Making the term plural provided an entry into multiple, and sometimes conflicting meanings of the term. The works in this exhibition might be thought of as studies on refindable places, considering colonial place-making, archival practice, and means of resisting erasure. By questioning spatial reduction in communities, institutions, and governments, these projects address the ways we are complicit in both their reduction and transformation.