Ellen Sampson is delighted to announce a Pop-Up Exhibition and Artists Residency and Bard Graduate Center, New York City
Emotional Objects: Things overloaded with feeling
4th Floor of the BGC Gallery., 18 West 86th Street, New York
December 6, 2019 – January 5, 2020
Private View December 6th 5-7pm
Clothes are amongst our most emotional objects- sites where multiple feelings may be produced, performed and contained. Though the capacity to contain and induce emotion is a common to all material things, those we associate with garments are often particularly potent. This exhibition explores clothing’s emotional affects through two everyday objects: the handkerchief and the glove. They are emotional objects, artefacts which convey, stand in for and embody emotion. These artefacts, mundane, yet over determined, are bound up with the etiquette and traditions of courting and mourning, of private and public, of work and of war. They are souvenirs, love tokens, and mementos: deeply entangled with performances of love, labour and grief. Despite the their ritualized and socially proscribed modes of use gloves and handkerchiefs are also deeply personal and tactile objects, often understood as indivisible from those who used them. They are bodily objects, objects that stand in for and act upon us in lieu of absent bodies.
The pop-up exhibition will be on view on the 4th Floor of the BGC Gallery.
About Bard Graduate Center
As the leading research institute in the United States dedicated to the study of decorative arts, design history, and material culture, Bard Graduate Center and its Gallery have pioneered the study of objects as a means to better understand the cultural history of the material world. Offering experiences for scholars, students, and the general public alike—Bard Graduate Center is built on multidisciplinary study and the integration of research, graduate teaching, and public exhibitions.