Socially Acceptable
November 7 - 27, 2015
Curated by Juliana Driever
With Curatorial Assistant Javiera Cadiz Bedini
Opening Reception|Saturday November 7, 6 - 8 pm
Curated by Juliana Driever
With Curatorial Assistant Javiera Cadiz Bedini
Opening Reception|Saturday November 7, 6 - 8 pm
Image: Anna Fabricius, The Possible Plays with Thought, 2015. Still image from video, courtesy of the Artist.
inCube Arts and Residency Unlimited are pleased to present Socially Acceptable, an exhibition that brings together the work of three of RU’s current artists-in-residence: Anna Fabricius, David Helbich, and Sophia Hewson.
Socially Acceptable looks at relational artworks that grapple with the vagaries of human behavior. How can artworks perform new conditions for interpersonal maneuvers?
Anna Fabricius’ project, The Possible Plays with Thought, offers intimate portraits of individual reaction and realization, skewing perception and slowing-down time to focus on what are often fleeting moments of instinctual responses. David Helbich’s No Image - Scores for the Viewer and No view - Eyepieces, provide didactic frameworks for interpreting graphics and urban landscape imagery, leading viewers into highly choreographed and play-based interactions with the works. Sophia Hewson’s project to intervene in Warren Jeffs’ notoriously isolated Mormon community in Hildale, Utah led her on a ten-day journey into a personal exploration of female disempowerment, protest, and psychological endurance. While each of these practices is distinctive in its approach, they share a common purpose in creating test sites for behavioral manipulations, and self-reflection within the realm of the socially acceptable.
inCube Arts and Residency Unlimited are pleased to present Socially Acceptable, an exhibition that brings together the work of three of RU’s current artists-in-residence: Anna Fabricius, David Helbich, and Sophia Hewson.
Socially Acceptable looks at relational artworks that grapple with the vagaries of human behavior. How can artworks perform new conditions for interpersonal maneuvers?
Anna Fabricius’ project, The Possible Plays with Thought, offers intimate portraits of individual reaction and realization, skewing perception and slowing-down time to focus on what are often fleeting moments of instinctual responses. David Helbich’s No Image - Scores for the Viewer and No view - Eyepieces, provide didactic frameworks for interpreting graphics and urban landscape imagery, leading viewers into highly choreographed and play-based interactions with the works. Sophia Hewson’s project to intervene in Warren Jeffs’ notoriously isolated Mormon community in Hildale, Utah led her on a ten-day journey into a personal exploration of female disempowerment, protest, and psychological endurance. While each of these practices is distinctive in its approach, they share a common purpose in creating test sites for behavioral manipulations, and self-reflection within the realm of the socially acceptable.
About Artists
Anna Fabricius is a Budapest-born, and Hungary-based, photo and video artist. She completed her PhD (DLA) at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Hungary in 2015. Her practice involves creating staged and improvised situations, oftentimes with the inclusion of texts. Fabricius’ work has been exhibited in European countries, and well-known festivals and exhibition spaces like PHotoespana, ParisPhoto, Art Paris, Lodz Photofestival, and Kunsthalle Budapest. Anna Fabricius’ three-month residency with RU is in collaboration with the Hungarian Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange (ACAX).
David Helbich is a conceptual artist who creates experimental works on stage, in writing, online and in public spaces. He works as a composer, street photographer, and sound/performance artist. Helbich is interested in the understanding of an audience as active individuals, and the search for an opening up of experiences in artistically restricted spaces. In the last fifteen years, Helbich's work has been shown all over Europe. He has had solo exhibitions for his photographic work at De Werf (Aalst), Le Clignoteur (Brussels), Louis Hartloper Stichting (Utrecht) and Vrijstaat- O (Ostend). Recent select group exhibitions include Do Disturb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015), Art Rotterdam (Intersection), and Tale of a tub gallery (2015), FASadE, train station, Amersfoort. David Helbich’s four-month residency with RU is made possible with support from the Flemish Government “Flanders, State of the Art.”
Sophia Hewson is a multidisciplinary artist. Her work examines the inter-generational transfer of experience, gender constructs, and the sensation of “faith not found.” Since graduating with First Class Honors in 2007 at the Victoria College of the Arts in Melbourne, Hewson has had several solo exhibitions including Dy Dykrenore, which featured a large-scale ice sculpture with an embedded kangaroo spine, and Delivered [internalizing the pervert/or re-building the body psyche] where she was suspended for several hours, covered in black glitter. Hewson was selected by Art Collector Magazine as one of Australia's 50 most collectable artists. She has exhibited across Australia and internationally. Last year she was a recipient of the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art international project. Her recent research includes traveling to the Polygamous Mormon community of Hildale, and meeting with pornography actors in Los Angeles. Sophia Hewson's six-month residency with RU is made possible with the support of the American Australian Association.
Anna Fabricius is a Budapest-born, and Hungary-based, photo and video artist. She completed her PhD (DLA) at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Hungary in 2015. Her practice involves creating staged and improvised situations, oftentimes with the inclusion of texts. Fabricius’ work has been exhibited in European countries, and well-known festivals and exhibition spaces like PHotoespana, ParisPhoto, Art Paris, Lodz Photofestival, and Kunsthalle Budapest. Anna Fabricius’ three-month residency with RU is in collaboration with the Hungarian Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange (ACAX).
David Helbich is a conceptual artist who creates experimental works on stage, in writing, online and in public spaces. He works as a composer, street photographer, and sound/performance artist. Helbich is interested in the understanding of an audience as active individuals, and the search for an opening up of experiences in artistically restricted spaces. In the last fifteen years, Helbich's work has been shown all over Europe. He has had solo exhibitions for his photographic work at De Werf (Aalst), Le Clignoteur (Brussels), Louis Hartloper Stichting (Utrecht) and Vrijstaat- O (Ostend). Recent select group exhibitions include Do Disturb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2015), Art Rotterdam (Intersection), and Tale of a tub gallery (2015), FASadE, train station, Amersfoort. David Helbich’s four-month residency with RU is made possible with support from the Flemish Government “Flanders, State of the Art.”
Sophia Hewson is a multidisciplinary artist. Her work examines the inter-generational transfer of experience, gender constructs, and the sensation of “faith not found.” Since graduating with First Class Honors in 2007 at the Victoria College of the Arts in Melbourne, Hewson has had several solo exhibitions including Dy Dykrenore, which featured a large-scale ice sculpture with an embedded kangaroo spine, and Delivered [internalizing the pervert/or re-building the body psyche] where she was suspended for several hours, covered in black glitter. Hewson was selected by Art Collector Magazine as one of Australia's 50 most collectable artists. She has exhibited across Australia and internationally. Last year she was a recipient of the Northern Centre for Contemporary Art international project. Her recent research includes traveling to the Polygamous Mormon community of Hildale, and meeting with pornography actors in Los Angeles. Sophia Hewson's six-month residency with RU is made possible with the support of the American Australian Association.
About Curators
Juliana Driever is a curator and writer. Her interests lie with art in the public realm, particularly work that is site-specific and participatory. Recent curatorial credits include About, With & For (2013, Boston Center for the Arts), and Art in Odd Places 2014: FREE (New York, NY). In 2016, she is co-curator (with Amber Berson) of The Let Down Reflex at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (New York, NY). Her writings appear in the print volume Service Media (Green Lantern Press), and online at Bad at Sports and A Blade of Grass Foundation.
Javiera Cadiz Bedini is a multidisciplinarian who obtained her M.A. from the University of Siena. She is an assistant curator, researcher and writer and looks primarily at contemporary art from a historical perspective. She focuses on global art that explores the nuances of issues pertaining to contemporary events. Her writing appears in ArtsouthAfrica and she has published essays and translations in Europe and Africa. Most recently, she assisted the curators of Brushing Up on Stern at the South African National Gallery and is currently a curatorial intern at RU in NYC
Juliana Driever is a curator and writer. Her interests lie with art in the public realm, particularly work that is site-specific and participatory. Recent curatorial credits include About, With & For (2013, Boston Center for the Arts), and Art in Odd Places 2014: FREE (New York, NY). In 2016, she is co-curator (with Amber Berson) of The Let Down Reflex at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (New York, NY). Her writings appear in the print volume Service Media (Green Lantern Press), and online at Bad at Sports and A Blade of Grass Foundation.
Javiera Cadiz Bedini is a multidisciplinarian who obtained her M.A. from the University of Siena. She is an assistant curator, researcher and writer and looks primarily at contemporary art from a historical perspective. She focuses on global art that explores the nuances of issues pertaining to contemporary events. Her writing appears in ArtsouthAfrica and she has published essays and translations in Europe and Africa. Most recently, she assisted the curators of Brushing Up on Stern at the South African National Gallery and is currently a curatorial intern at RU in NYC