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We first “make Other” by seeing, by encountering physically. Looking at the body,
we begin to categorize it. Othering is one of the first steps to identifying the self; one
learns who she is in relation to/ against another. It's a method of self-identification,
a construction of roles, a learning of boundaries. But it is also a way to discriminate,
stigmatize, demonize, condemn. We exoticise, eroticize, fetishize and objectify what
seems foreign. The process of making other applies to female bodies, ethnic bodies,
queer bodies, immigrant bodies. It's a mode of exclusion and alienation, of fascination
tempered by disgust, a desire covered over by fear.
Each artist in this exhibition is evoking a body or a stand in for the body, and the bodies
on view are ethnic, distorted, chaotic, ambiguously gendered. But each artist examines
the body through his or her own lens. At times, an overt dialogue of Otherness is made visible; in other cases, it is merely a whisper heard through the layers of multiple voices.
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vydavy sindikat - Displayced 2011
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vydavy sindikat - Displayced 2011
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Irina Danilova - HairGraphics 1 2011
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Irina Danilova - HairGraphics 2 2011
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Irina Danilova - Meaning of Life
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Irina Danilova - Before Getting Digital
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Yevgeniya Baras - - 2011
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Yevgeniya Baras - - 2011
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Yevgeniya Baras - - 2011
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Yevgeniya Baras - - 2011
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Alina & Jeff Bliumis - Hula Hoop (#2) - Bronze 41"diameter 2012
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Alina & Jeff Bliumis - Milk Sucker - wood iron bronze rubber 9x4' 2012
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