From Urban Reverence to Urban Divergence exhibition : venue 1- Pfizer

Rethinking culture and art history, the relationship between humans, land, and the myth of universe operation has been recently and swiftly transformed into a chaotic hymn or hysterical tone. In the passage of simple diurnal imagery, nature held rich mythologies of our environment to be reverenced. Divergence from a perceived golden age to a crisis age in society and politics has impacted genres in culture and art.

The centrifugal tendency in the transition from the rural village to the urban is the loss of cultural rituals and myths, the need to adapt to the new language and the loss of innocence. Art creators are able to mediate and textualize new connections to the threat to culture and most particularly its antecedents. 

The series of Urban Tribes projects started in 2018 to examine from an art perspective the phenomenon of migrants forming an international cross-cultural "urban tribe" – one of the genres at the turn of the 21st century. The discourse thus moves to valuing human nature, preserving multiple cultures, renewing the environment, and honoring the new multi-faceted unity. Potential political, economic, and cultural crises can be averted only by an emphasis on the diversity of life that promotes interactive relationships.

 Artists in this contemporary expression might inscribe the ambivalences and complexities of existential agon, of voice, of the affective root, or cultural difference. They might even suggest in critique or acknowledgement a mockery, a type of self-reflexive awareness.

 Curatorial team:

Luchia Meihua Lee

co-curators: Jennifer Pliego, Sarah Walko 

Participating artists:

1.      Herberto Turizzo Anaya

2. Stephanie Cheung
3. Chih Hui Chuang
4. Dennis RedMoon Darkeem
5. Felipe Galindo
6. Sarah Haviland
7. Diana Heise
8. Hsiao Chu Hsia
9. Hiroshi Jashiki
10. Mingjer Kuo
11. Catherine Lan
12. Lee Wei
13. Lin Shih-Pao
14. Eleng Luluen
15. j. maya luz
16. Walis LaBai (Diing-Wuu Wu)
17. Sarah Walko
18. Wu Chien-Hsing
19. Yeh Fang
20. Rosalía Mowgli 

v Exhibition dates: June 10 through July 23, 2022

v Exhibition venues 1:

1^st Floor, IW Art Gallery

5^th Floor, old Pfizer building, 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206

 

v Satellite exhibition:

·      Exhibition dates: June 24 through July 23, 2022

·      Exhibition venue 2: Valerie Goodman gallery, 315 E 91^st St, New York, NY 10128