safe keeping
Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery; Purchase, NY
MFA Group Show - Purchase College
2025
MFA Group Show - Purchase College
2025
Artmaking and understanding are interdependent, shaped by the gallery, the memory bank, the spoken or materialized story that traces the interplay between the incidental and the essential.
What do we hold dear to us? What do we decide to keep? Safe from what and from whom? These questions lie at the center of the exhibition as we consider the vessels of keeping and seek to reveal the underlying architectures that support and hold us.
What is in our custody and what is left unguarded reveals as much about value as it does about exclusion. To choose what is safe is to decide what remains. Just as you are in a state of choosing, the objects chose to be here (at least according to object-oriented ontology). Safe Keeping becomes a refuge, a reflective place to contemplate the precious, a temporary preservation in which to make meaning together.
photos by Alex Patrick Dyck & Jordan Benton
What do we hold dear to us? What do we decide to keep? Safe from what and from whom? These questions lie at the center of the exhibition as we consider the vessels of keeping and seek to reveal the underlying architectures that support and hold us.
What is in our custody and what is left unguarded reveals as much about value as it does about exclusion. To choose what is safe is to decide what remains. Just as you are in a state of choosing, the objects chose to be here (at least according to object-oriented ontology). Safe Keeping becomes a refuge, a reflective place to contemplate the precious, a temporary preservation in which to make meaning together.
photos by Alex Patrick Dyck & Jordan Benton
