Antonia Wright: You Make Me Sick: I Love You

Spinello Projects, Miami (curatorial advisor)

March - May 2014

You Make Me Sick: I Love You – a solo exhibition by Miami-based artist Antonia Wright. The sweeping exhibition, for which I was the curatorial adviser, featured video, photography, and sculpture, encompassed the entire Spinello Projects space as well as neighboring Butter Gallery. It was the first full-scale review of Wright’s work created over the course of a decade. Rather than advance through the gallery spaces chronologically or typologically, Wright’s practice has been displayed according to theme-oriented bodies of work. As a curatorial adviser I considered this show as revolving around three main preoccupations – gender politics, bodily endurance and extreme emotion/action in the public sphere.  Wright’s recurring interest in using her own body as her principal tool enables her to undermine the boundaries of gender politics, to challenge social conventions via an extreme physical or emotional action, and to test the endurance of her viewers.

Antonia Wright: You Make Me Sick: I Love You

Spinello Projects, Miami (curatorial advisor)

March - May 2014

You Make Me Sick: I Love You – a solo exhibition by Miami-based artist Antonia Wright. The sweeping exhibition, for which I was the curatorial adviser, featured video, photography, and sculpture, encompassed the entire Spinello Projects space as well as neighboring Butter Gallery. It was the first full-scale review of Wright’s work created over the course of a decade. Rather than advance through the gallery spaces chronologically or typologically, Wright’s practice has been displayed according to theme-oriented bodies of work. As a curatorial adviser I considered this show as revolving around three main preoccupations – gender politics, bodily endurance and extreme emotion/action in the public sphere.  Wright’s recurring interest in using her own body as her principal tool enables her to undermine the boundaries of gender politics, to challenge social conventions via an extreme physical or emotional action, and to test the endurance of her viewers.

Be, 2013, video