Exposure

Michele Araujo, Daniel Bodner, Anna Campbell, Joy Episalla, Thomas Fougeirol, Craig Jun Li, Linda Matalon, Linn P. Meldt, David Nelson, Hol Ogram, J Pasila, Carlos Reyes, Jo-ey Tang In this historic moment of fracture and collapse, sustenance comes from connections with others and a cobbled-together sense of community that emerges through our exposure to each other. Each of these artists engage with different forms of exposure. I am thinking about the multiple and layered meanings of exposure: beginning with photographic exposure as a process and extending outwards to the objects, and how they travel through the world—permeable, always precarious, provisional, never unscathed, and subject to the variables of weather, handling, chance, climate and light. Several of the artists know each other more intimately than I know them. Some only know one or two of the others. Two are collaborative entities. One is the parent of half of one of those entities. Some share long histories. One was the student of another. One is no longer with us. Together, they/we form a particular constellation of affinities. —Carrie Yamaoka