Tribeca, New York
Group Exhibition
Invisible Cities: Hunter Fall MFA Thesis Exhibition, Part II
Hudson GalleryJulie Avetisyan, Yan Cynthia Chen, Sarah Cohen, Alicia Ehni, Henry Glavin, Louisa Owen, Dana Schein “Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” —Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities Hunter MFA, New York is pleased to announce Invisible Cities, a thesis group exhibition presenting new works by Julie Avetisyan, Yan Cynthia Chen, Sarah Cohen, Alicia Ehni, Henry Glavin, Louisa Owen and Dana Schein. While widely varying in approach and medium, all seven artists consider the construction of a visual place as a catalyst to communicate. Italo Calvino’s 1972 book Invisible Cities is an unusual work of literary fiction because it resists a sequential narrative structure. It is instead constructed through 55 prose poems of fictional cities told with the framing device of an imagined conversation between explorer Marco Polo and Mongolian Emperor Kublai Khan. The description of each city in Calvino’s story unfolds like a visual work of art or a dream-like labyrinth with hidden divisions. Each individual fiction city represents an unreliable vessel of detail, serving as a thought experiment towards questions beyond architecture, gardens, and markets- How should we live? The thesis exhibition, Invisible Cities, offers seven vignettes constructed through a wide range of materials- each distinct in their tone, influences, and questions.