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Precious Commodity
Precious Commodity
Exhibition catalogue for the 2017 exhibition Precious Commodity, a group exhibition featuring Eunice Luk, Ella Dawn McGeough, Juan Ortiz-Apuy, and Biliana Velkova, curated by Alison Cooley.
Articulating a tension between objects and their ways of being—their forms, their significance, their social and economic circulation—Precious Commodity brings together artworks that examine the complicated sweetness of things. Unanchoring objects from their exchange within capitalism, the artists in the exhibition resignify them as vessels for fantasy, desire, and alternate possibility. Reflecting on the nature of a world populated by things with definitive practical uses and monetary values, each artist playfully contends with form, usurping existing representations in the service of building new meanings. Ultimately, the exhibition asks how we come to identify with the world of stuff—how we negotiate the fraught ethics of consumerism, how we arrive at and move beyond “sentimental value,” and how we understand the lives of things often considered inanimate. Together, the artists in Precious Commodity look to objects not as static, fixed entities, but as tools for thinking with.
The catalogue features an essay by the curator, a reading list, artist bios, and exhibition checklist.
Curator
Alison Cooley
Artists
Eunice Luk Ella Dawn McGeough Juan Ortiz-Apuy Biliana Velkova
Publisher
Critical Distance
Binding
Paperback, full colour images
Size
6 x 9 inches
39 pages
ISBN
978 0992 113797
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