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Recovering Futures
From September 2022 through June 2023 the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art will present Recovering Futures, a series of three exhibitions by artists Chrysanne Stathacos, TJ Shin, and Sofía Córdova. The exhibitions will be accompanied by essays and a year-long, artist-led course in a new, free art school. The exhibition series consists of three solo presentations of work by artists exploring memory, transformation, and recovery in a damaged world.
To support these exhibitions, BICA has been approved for a $20,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts! That grant will cover about half of our expenses for this project, so we’re fundraising to cover the other half. Help us out, get recognized as a sponsor of the series, and get a complimentary catalog at the end of the series by donating below!
Chrysanne Stathacos, Rose Wall, 1994-97. Courtesy of the artist and Breeder Gallery, Athens.
Chrysanne Stathacos
On September 23, 2022, BICA will open Chrysanne Stathacos: Cooking with Roses, a survey of the acclaimed, Buffalo-born artist’s work with the eponymous flower. Throughout Chrysanne Stathacos’s long career several materials, or in her words, “witchy items,” have been deployed again and again: ivy, hair, condoms, and roses. Cooking with Roses surveys Stathacos’ prints, paintings, installations, and objects that utilize the flower in a variety of unexpected ways: arranging its petals into sculptural mandalas, pressing it into the canvas (along with hair and condoms), and even printing images on individual petals; together, Stathacos’ rose work exemplifies her creativity and dedication to process-based innovations across many mediums.
TJ Shin: Microbial Speculation of Our Gut Feelings, 2020, installation view, Recess. Photo: Mary Kang
TJ Shin
In February of 2023, an exhibition by Canadian-Korean artist TJ Shin will explore the porous nature of bodily boundaries and the ceaseless movement of microbial processes in relation to the entangled histories of colonialism, globalization, and immigration. At BICA, Shin will expand on a body of work begun while in residence at the University at Buffalo’s Coalesce BioArt Lab where they infected the mugwort plant—a historically invasive species long associated with witchcraft—with their own genetic material using a gene gun.
Sofía Córdova, A LAS MIL MARAVILLAS / IN THE THOUSAND WONDERS, 2018, installation view, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY.
Sofía Córdova
In April of 2023, Sofía Córdova, a Puerto Rican artist based in Oakland, California will present in its entirety for the first time the Dawn Chorus trilogy, an epic series of multi-channel video works which simultaneously rediscovers the past’s revolutionary potential, the present’s depredations against the Caribbean, and the future’s cyborgian possibilities in a post-apocalyptic world. A multimedia artist whose work considers sci-fi as alternative history, dance music's liberatory potential, colonial contamination, mystical objects, and world-building within the matrix of class, gender, race, late capitalism and its technologies, Córdova rounds out a series of three exhibitions with a look toward a more wild future.
