HABIT-AT | PS122, NY | opening April 6, closing April 28
Milcah Bassel
Dear friends,
It’s spring. Please join me for HABIT-AT if you're in NYC this April.
I'll be showing and activating some potential wearables from my Continua series.
A performance is scheduled on the closing day, with unannounced activations happening throughout the exhibition.
Patricia Brace and I will be sharing the inaugural Summer Pour pieces we made in collaboration with Milfoil, an invasive aquatic plant, and with Will O Valdes, Ziv Steinberg, and Grace Brace.
may peace sprout from our hearts,
in abundance,
Milcah
Continua: Pelt 2 (bell), action photo, 2021-2024
HABIT-AT
Milcah Bassel with Patricia Brace
Amra Causevic
Yu Rim Chung
Eugenio Salas
curated by
Renana Neuman
opening reception and performance: April 6, 5-8pm
closing and performance: April 28
April 6 - 28, 2024
Friday - Sunday 1-6pm, and by appointment
150 1st Ave
New York, NY
“habit-at” investigates the multiple realities we inhabit and re-imagines the meaning of what surrounds us. The participating artists work together with their habitats, becoming a part of the ecological systems in which they live and work. They create habits through which they source their materials, found and discarded objects, “leftovers” of activities that act as a diary of a place and time, of political and cultural structures. They actively aspire to tangle their relation to the places they inhabit and the different people who cohabitate there with them. They make our blindspots visible, acknowledging what we usually filter out as the “background noise” of everyday life. These are offerings for possible futures, of different ways of formulating what can be sustainable approaches to existing in the world at large and as artists specifically.
During our lives, we inhabit different spaces by choice, chance, or necessity. How we inhabit them is what's at stake. The participating artists foreground not what can be taken advantage of or exploited, but what we can give back, and how we can understand ourselves as one component of an ever-growing and changing system that is reaching its capacity. These are matters of belonging, relinquishing control, collaborating with the landscape, with people, and the unknown.
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