Virtual and Real Estate @ BRIC
Virtual and Real Estate
curated by Connie Kang and Danielle Wu
February 6 - April 7, 2019
In conjunction with the BRIC Biennial: Volume III, South Brooklyn Edition, the Virtual and Real Estate group exhibition features work by artists Pastiche Lumumba, Daniel Bejar, and Betty Yu, that expresses the conundrums that arise from living in an age where the simulated is increasingly confused with the real. Although “estate” has previously been defined as fixed physical properties, the exhibition troubles our notions of property, ownership, circulation, space, and most fundamentally, what it means to be “real.” The Internet provides marginalized communities a virtual space for subversion and play, meanwhile distracting from the physical realities of gentrification and land rezoning. From Lumumba’s embalmed memes to Bejar’s subversion of the ubiquitous real estate billboard, to Yu’s archive of stories by communities affected by gentrification, these works challenges the absurdity of place and placelessness to bear on the chronological depth of lived experience.
ABOUT AN/OTHER:
Virtual and Real Estate was curated by Connie Kang and Danielle Wu of An/Other, a group of artists, writers, and curators advocating for Asians and Asian-Americans in the arts. Founded in 2015, An/Other is an evolving community for workshopping artistic practices, and a safe space for collective thinking and action around issues of race and representation, transnational identities, and political engagement in the arts.
VENUE INFORMATION
The Project Room, located adjacent to the Gallery in BRIC House is an added resource for video work, BRIC’s emerging curator program, small-scale exhibitions and experimental curatorial projects.