About the show

Eduardo Secci gallery is pleased to announce the group show “a question of vibrancy/earthly sight”, curated by Essence Harden, featuring works by Natalie Ball, Khari Johnson-Ricks, Maria Maea, Azikiwe Mohammed, Devin N. Morris, Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Elise Peterson, Adee Roberson, and Khalif Tahir Thompson. The opening reception takes place on Friday, March 25 (4:00 – 8:00 pm) in Florence (Piazza Goldoni 2), and the exhibition will be on view until May 21, 2022.

The exhibition “a question of vibrancy/earthly sight” is interested in a series of responses to the notion of place itself, working through what the cultural theorist Fred Moten names “the idea of the world”, which ushered in hierarchical positioning, binarist impulse, and a range of limited scopes which sought to punish and impale. Those failed visions of the world, especially Western and European, of dominance and overseeing are impositions of belonging and (rightful) place. For this occasion, the curator Essence Harden questions: what of placelessness? What does this group of artists generate from the untenable? If “to see the earth is to see as earth,” then what is the radical potential in inhabitation, “the view from nowhere”? The group show does not assume that the artists of the African, Latinx, and Indigenous American diasporas are beholden to this realm of knowledge. Instead, it asks how these artists, in particular, inhabit and extend space as epiphenomenal – marking elasticity and expansion, topological matters, rather than order and hierarchy within the works. The group show will present the responses of the nine artists through multiple sensory experiences.

Eduardo Secci gallery is pleased to announce the group show “a question of vibrancy/earthly sight”, curated by Essence Harden, featuring works by Natalie Ball, Khari Johnson-Ricks, Maria Maea, Azikiwe Mohammed, Devin N. Morris, Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, Elise Peterson, Adee Roberson, and Khalif Tahir Thompson. The opening reception takes place on Friday, March 25 (4:00 – 8:00 pm) in Florence (Piazza Goldoni 2), and the exhibition will be on view until May 21, 2022.

The exhibition “a question of vibrancy/earthly sight” is interested in a series of responses to the notion of place itself, working through what the cultural theorist Fred Moten names “the idea of the world”, which ushered in hierarchical positioning, binarist impulse, and a range of limited scopes which sought to punish and impale. Those failed visions of the world, especially Western and European, of dominance and overseeing are impositions of belonging and (rightful) place. For this occasion, the curator Essence Harden questions: what of placelessness? What does this group of artists generate from the untenable? If “to see the earth is to see as earth,” then what is the radical potential in inhabitation, “the view from nowhere”? The group show does not assume that the artists of the African, Latinx, and Indigenous American diasporas are beholden to this realm of knowledge. Instead, it asks how these artists, in particular, inhabit and extend space as epiphenomenal – marking elasticity and expansion, topological matters, rather than order and hierarchy within the works. The group show will present the responses of the nine artists through multiple sensory experiences.

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