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Neo-Nomads: What Travels with You?

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Ward Shelley, Voyage Platform — Cold Morning, 1998, Photographic emulsion type print. 30 × 20 inches . Courtesy of the artist.

Inspired by our experience (both of us lived in Europe, Asia and are now both in NY), our reflection writing Promenades:(in Taking Leaving Moving), and the ideas of people like Pico Iyer and Yasmine Abbas, we co-curated (with the artist, Baseera Kahn) Neo-Nomads: what travels with you? a group exhibition at the Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

Exile — voluntary or forced, nomadism, packing, leaving, and moving are not new notions; yet technology and increased mobility have dramatically changed our sense of space and our perception of home. Neo-nomads, contemporary nomads sometimes referred to as “global souls,” are constantly on the move and changing geographies. Journeying through urban life, neo-nomads challenge the idea of home as well-defined, physical space. The works in Neo-nomads posit home as a sense of space, a collage of all previously experienced homes combined with memories of objects, moments, and people, in much the same way that our perceptions in general are always imbued with our memories. Working with a variety of media (photography, sculpture, video, installation, paintings, and works on paper) and with diverse approaches, artists Kim Beck, Adam Brent, Emily Henretta, Sangbin IM, McKendree Key,  Ward Shelley, and Traci Talasco reflect on the nature of home and the intangible objects, experiences, and memories that constitute our sense of home.

BRIC Rotunda Gallery
33 Clinton Street, 718-855-7882
Brooklyn Misc.
January 20 – February 26, 2011


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