Boundless at KUNSTRAUM April 23rd - May 20th, 2023
Curated by Christina Massey, KUNSTRAUM Curator-in-Residence 2023-24
Carlos de la Sancha, Jacquelyn Strycker, Nadya Volicer, Olivia Springberg, Zhenyuan Shi
The Boundless exhibition at KUNSTRAUM LLC in Brooklyn, NY features the work of five contemporary artists: Carlos de la Sancha, Jacquelyn Strycker, Nadya Volicer, Olivia Springberg and Zhenyuan Shi. Through experimental adaptations of mediums ranging from photography, fiber arts, painting to printmaking, these artists explore the physical and emotional aspects of boundaries and limitations. While art is often seen as a boundaryless and free endeavor, personal boundaries may be limited by social constraints due to culture, religion, environment, or physical ability and space.
If we consider our memories as another kind of barrier, in the fabric works of Nadya Volicer we see moments of a couple posing for a photograph, overlaid with sewn lines that change and confuse their positions within the artwork. As in a memory, some moments of the images are clearer than others, others blurred and superimposed until the sensation represents the idea or feeling of a memory rather than the distinction of a memory itself. Volicer uses old family photographs as source material, drawing on those where her own memory has faded and she has little or no recollection of the documented event. Exploring these moments, she examines the uncertainty of memory and the limitless ways in which we can attempt to understand the passage of time.
Artworks in Boundless were selected from KUNSTRAUM’s annual open call by the KUNSTRAUM team and curated by the 2023-24 Curator-in-Residence, Christina Massey.