“White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart” at Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia
Artist: Hilton Als, Lynda Benglis, Bernadette Corporation, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Dexter Sinister with Halmos, Leif Elggren, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Karen Kilimnik, Irena Knezevic, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Erin Leland, Zoe Leonard, Wardell Milan, Paulina Olowska, Seth Price, Rammellzee, Nick Relph, Carissa Rodriguez, Aura Rosenberg, John Miller & Frank Lutz, Nader Sadek, Frances Stark, Catherine Sullivan, Scott Treleaven, Amy Yao
Venue: Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia
Exhibition Title: White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart
Curated by: Anthony Elms
Date: February 26 – July 28, 2013
Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.
Video:
Karen Kilimnik
Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Images:
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- Irena Knezevic
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- Irena Knezevic
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- Irena Knezevic
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- Nader Sadek
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- RAMMΣLLZΣΣ
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- RAMMΣLLZΣΣ
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- RAMMΣLLZΣΣ
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- Frances Stark
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- Frances Stark
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- Frances Stark
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- Bernadette Corporation
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- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
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- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
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- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
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- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
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- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
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- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
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- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
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- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
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- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
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- Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
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- Aura Rosenberg and John Miller
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- Aura Rosenberg and John Miller
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- Paulina Olowska
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- Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven
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- Zoe Leonard
Images courtesy of the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia. Photos by Aaron Igler
Press Release:
White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart presents the work of artists engaged with clothing, adornment, and self-presentation to highlight the inventive design, tactical implementation, or sartorial sense by which we multiply and complete our personalities. On view in ICA’s First Floor Space February 6 through July, 28, 2013, this group exhibition takes inspiration from this definition by novelist JG Ballard—”Fashion: A recognition that nature has endowed us with one skin too few, and that a fully sentient being should wear its nervous system externally.”
Artworks in a variety of media infuse garments with a distinctive sense of pose—the exclusive province of neither the advertisement nor the runway—to stand, statue-like, with an attitude perfumed by immense mediation and an unsteady social sphere. With examples from outlandish costumes to self-published magazines, jewelry to sculpture, performance to painting, this sensibility permeates all fields. Oscillating between branding, self-recognition, sexuality, political uniform, and economic indicator, our adornment always reflects a chosen position in and with society. Told time and time again that ours is a narcissistic age, how do we positively reveal or covertly enact desires before the mirror of our time?
Link: “White Petals Surround Your Yellow Heart” at Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia