"Deep, Above you" @Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
"Deep, Above you", is a site specific installation for The Ocean After Nature traveling exhibition curated by Alaina Claire Feldman and produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. The presentation at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts has been organized in collaboration with Ceci Moss, Assistant Curator of Visual Arts. Honored to be part of this poetic and powerful exhibition among the following international artists: Ursula Biemann, CAMP, Yonatan Cohen & Rafi Segal, Mati Diop, Drexciya, Peter Fend, Manuel Gnam, Renée Green, Peter Hutton, Hyung S. Kim, An-My Lê, Manny Montelibano, Deimantas Narkevicius, the Otolith Group, Ulrike Ottinger, Maria D. Rapicavoli, Carissa Rodriguez, Allan Sekula & Nöel Burch, Supersudaca, UNITED BROTHERS.
From the curator's statement: "Invoking personal themes of identity and migration, alongside more universal concerns related to tourism, trade, and the exploitation of natural resources, the artists in The Ocean After Nature respond to the intertwined factors that define this new understanding of the ocean".
Accompanying the exhibition is a publication edited by the curator and designed by Geoff Kaplan; including texts by Negar Azimi, Ursula Biemann, Yonatan Cohen and Rafi Segal, María del Carmen Carrión, Övül O. Durmusoglu, Kodwo Eshun, Patrick Flores, Ed Halter, Ebony L. Haynes, May Joseph, Amanda Parmer, Lisa Le Feuvre, Lucy R. Lippard, Andrey Misiano, Allan Sekula and Noël Burch, Lanka Tattersall, Virgil B/G Taylor, Jordan G. Teicher and Sarah Wang.
Please visit the following link for more information: https://www.ybca.org/whats-on/the-ocean-after-nature and http://curatorsintl.org/exhibitions/the-ocean-after-nature
Catalogue can be found here: curatorsintl.org/shop/the-ocean-after-nature and at YBCA:
YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
701 MISSION STREET
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103
TEL: 415-978-2700
TIX: 415-978-2787
HELLO@YBCA.ORG
Duration of the show: June 17 - August 28, 2016
Tour Dates: June 2016 – November 2018