An exhibition featuring artists Clare Hu, Tianyi Sun, and Shaan Ken Rao. The three artists, working in various mediums such as sculpture, weaving, painting, and photography, will create entirely new bodies of work using the gallery as their studio. If artistic production generates its own forms of excretion, Best by borrows from the language of a system that organizes such distinctions: product packaging, where expiry dates sort the viable from the expired. These dates make disposal feel inevitable and predetermined, as though an object’s ending was written the moment of its making. The art world is no exception to expiry logic. In a climate of rising costs, contracting budgets, and institutional retrenchment, galleries are shedding artists and staff, recalibrating toward the marketable—what some might call a search for the institution's "soul.” Yet it is rarely the boldfaced names that go. Biennials and art fair cycles operate on the same logic, determining who and what is current, emerging, and relevant—and by extension, what has been spent.
New York City, NY; NYC