May
2 – June 6
Netanel
Eliezer
Personal
Landscapes
Opening
Reception – Friday, May 9 at 6pm
In
the past, I explored through photography the intimate relationship
between man and his living environment. As the resident Photography
Fellow
at
International House this year, I continue to research different
expressions of this relationship. Scholars
from around the world are integrated in
the
same building, in similar rooms with identical furniture.
Each room has the same dresser with
the
same measured space below the large mirror cabinet. It is
common that habitually used or recognizable items often clutter
the tops of dressers.
The
residents of IHouse come from different cultures, with differing
objects and ways of life. I wonder if their dresser tops reflect
in any way their singular identities. Or maybe the environment,
which is identical for each one creates matching habits. Multiplied
through a series of photographs, the dresser tops become a
common territory. Unaware of the outcome of my research, I
hope that each image will display a distinctive personal landscape.
– Netanel Eliezer
April
4 – May 30
InLiquid.com
Video Installation
David
Kessler
Shadow World: Under the El, Year One
An
intimate look at a place where time is measured not by the
movements of the sun but by the rumbling of the el train on
Front Street/Kensington Avenue, Shadow World is an
in-depth video exploration of the space and people under the
train tracks. The project originated as a video blog
by David Kessler at www.undertheel.blogspot.com.
Video
Installations are made possible with the support of Genesis
Asset Protection.
June
11 - August 22
Style
Tribes v6.0
Opening
Reception – Wednesday, June 11 at 6pm
Style
Tribes v6.0 explores the tribal connection between fashion,
music, media and specific social groups with a collection
of works by Design & Merchandising students from Drexel
University.
What’s
Your Tribe? Students enrolled in the Visual Merchandising
2 course investigated this very question during Spring term.
Each presents a wall or sculptural element and a multi-media
piece relating to their tribe with the option of adding other
elements to engage the viewers’ senses of taste, touch or
smell.
Inspired
by the work of Ted Polhemus, an anthropologist and fashion
writer, Style Tribes curator Anne Cecil – a Philadelphia artist
and the students’ professor – continues to investigate how
fashion has become the predominant way for people in modern
society to single out others with whom they identify. “Each
and every one of us has a fundamental need to belong to a
group and the visual language of clothing makes us and our
peers instantly recognizable to each other in today’s transient
and global world.”
The
exhibit demonstrates how the elective, eclectic and experimental
nature of style creates synergy between people of diverse
backgrounds, fusing them into unique “tribes” unencumbered
by traditional boundaries like gender, race, religion or geography.
Cecil explains, “ As soon as you don your over-sized sports
jersey and some bling-bling jewelry, you’ve got instant cred
with hip hoppers from Detroit to Tokyo . Likewise, when you
put on that three-piece Armani suit, you’ve got a membership
to the corporate club anywhere in the world.”
Fashion
in the context of this exhibit is a metaphor for cultural
diversity so Style Tribes is a useful tool for getting young
people to think about issues like identity, stereotyping and
acceptance of others in a language they can easily relate
to.
–
Josette Bonafino, MYX Gallery Co-founder and Director
Film
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