In Practice: Total Disbelief [electronic resource].

SculptureCenter 2020

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Art has served belief for a very long time. In the wake of a vast historical trove of devotional objects, religious subject matter, pseudo-religious spectatorship, and trompe-l’oeil trickery, a broad swath of recent art based in trust, tenuous faith, or the suspension of disbelief fans out. Near the end of the last century, photo-documents asked viewers to believe that some of conceptual art’s most important gestures actually happened, while in the last twenty to thirty years works of autofiction, parafiction, and straight-up fiction have exploited our own skepticism and naivete by intentionally introducing the unbelievable into the realm of the real. And as it goes for X-Files fans: we want to believe…
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Kyle Dancewicz
Qais Assali
Andrew Cannon
Jesse Chun
Hadi Fallahpisheh
Ficus Interfaith
Emilie Louise Gossiaux
Laurie Kang
Devin Kenny
Andrea Solstad
K.R.M. Mooney
sidony o’neal
Mariana Silva
Jordan Strafer
Andrew Norman Wilson
Chris Wu
Yoon-Young Chai
Ella Viscardi
Lucy Flint