80 Washington Square East, NYU

Exhibition as Image

November 16, 2021 – February 20, 2022

80 Washington Square East

Exhibition as Image focuses on the role exhibition documentation plays within artistic practice, exhibition making, and criticism. With the advent of increased public visibility, the homogenization of documentation has typically flattened exhibitions into images. As such, this group show re-frames how art is seen through images by artists who have documented exhibitions or who take the documentation of art as a basis for their own work by creating counterpoints to processes of standardization. These range from uses of changing lens-based media wherein the recorder is an active component in the work, to, more recently, depictions of art’s image as most commonly seen through the screen rather than in physical space. Whilst some of the works in Exhibition as Image might formally exist in-between art and documentation, most take subjective and embodied approaches, or offer critical responses, to the re-representation of art in the documentary mode.

with:
Lutz Bacher
Judith Barry
Contemporary Art Writing Daily
Jana Euler
Renee Green
Hans Haacke
Esteban Jefferson
Louise Lawler
Jeff Preiss (in collaboration with Andrea Fraser, Nicolas Guagnini, Josiah McElheny, Moyra Davey, Isaac Preiss & Barney Simon, and Anthony McCall)
Carissa Rodriguez
Gili Tal

Exhibition as Image is curated by Saim Demircan. 

Exhibition view from the street, featuring a large window between two brick walls.
Installation view of the exhibition featuring a black rolling desk chair in front of a grey table. On the table, is an iMac computer with a still from a video on it. Behind the computer, are tall glass windows that separate the first room in the foreground from the room in the background.
Installation view of the exhibition. On the left, there is a floor to ceiling window. In the middle, a doorway leading to the next room in the exhibition. On the left of the doorway, various posters and notices are hung up in random order, but are illegible from camera view. On the right of the doorway, wall text is displayed, vertically, but again illegible from camera view. On the very right side of the image, a grey table is set up with a black, rolling office chair. On the table, an iMac desktop computer sits with a still image from a video playing on the screen. Behind the computer, more floor to ceiling windows separate one room from the next.
Installation view of the exhibition. On the right, a large window takes up three fourths of the wall. On the back wall, several black and white images are hung in two rows of thirteen.
Close-up image of several black and white photographs hung in two rows in small white frames.
Installation view of the exhibition featuring two walls. On the left wall, several black and white photos are hung in two rows, one on top of the other. On the back wall, in front of it, two monitors, stacked on top of each other.
Installation view of the exhibition featuring two television monitors stacked on top of one another.
Installation image of the exhibition featuring three white pedestals on the left side of the frame.
Installation image of three white pedestals, spaced evenly apart, on a brown wood floor. Three spotlights hang over the pedestals.
Close-up image of a glass orb in the exhibition atop a white pedestal. The glass orb's convex shape allows for the image underneath to show through in a bit of a distorted way.
Close-up image of a glass orb in the exhibition atop a white pedestal. The glass orb's convex shape allows for the image underneath to show through in a bit of a distorted way.
Close-up image of a glass orb in the exhibition atop a white pedestal. The glass orb's convex shape allows for the image underneath to show through in a bit of a distorted way.
Installation view of the exhibition. On the left, a monitor sits atop a white pedestal. On the right, three white pedestals are lined in a row.
Installation view of the exhibition featuring a television monitor on a white pedestal.
Installation view of a white pedestal. Only the very top of the pedestal shows from this camera angle. On top of it, is a plastic box to protect the small object on top of the pedestal.
Installation view of the exhibition featuring one art work spotlit on the back white wall. The artwork is illegible from this camera angle.
Installation image of the exhibition. On the left, in the foreground, a black and white photograph is mounted to a white wall. A spotlight, lights the image. Leading into the background, a dark colored pamphlet sits atop a white pedestal, but it is illegible from this camera distance.
Installation view of the exhibition featuring; on the left wall, five piece of paper with black typed words, though illegible from the camera viewpoint. On the right, near the center of an image, a post card carousel stands with the same image card in each slot.
Close-up image of the postcard carousel with the same image in each slot. The carousel is close-up in the foreground of the image on the left. On the right, in the background a blurred white pedestal with a monitor.
Close-up image of a postcard carousel with the same black and white image in each slot. In the background, an out of focus exit sign hangs above a door.
Installation image of an installation in the exhibition featuring five pieces of white paper, with black type face printed on it, although illegible from camera view.
Installation view of three pedestals in the exhibition. On the left side, a white pedestal with a pamphlet on top. In the middle, a white pedestal with another white pamphlet on top and various illegible sketches. On the right, a white pedestal with a black and blue pamphlet on top. In the background, several black and white images are mounted to the wall in two rows of five. In the foreground, a black and white photograph is spotlight in a dark room against a white wall.
Installation view of three pedestals in the exhibition. On the left side, a white pedestal with a pamphlet on top. In the middle, a white pedestal with another white pamphlet on top and various illegible sketches. On the right, a white pedestal with a black and blue pamphlet on top. In the background, several black and white images are mounted to the wall in two rows of five.
Close up image of a picture on a white pedestal. The image features several figures in an array of colors of white pedestals.
Installation view of the exhibition featuring three white pedestals on the left side of the image, topped with paper pamphlets. On the left, several pieces of white paper with black typed font, sit on a white ledge against the white wall, but are illegible from this angle.
Installation view of six pieces of paper sitting on a white ledge against a white wall. The pieces of paper are in black and white and contain black typed text, but the words are illegible from the camera view point and image quality.
Image of a pamphlet on a white pedestal. The pamphlet features to page, on the left, a collection of smaller images, on the right, there is a sketch tree with some writing, though it is illegible from image quality.
Close-up image of a pamphlet on top of a pedestal. In front of the pedestal, various bulbous and small black and white pitchers sit.
Installation view of the exhibition. On the left, three white pedestals sit with pamphlets atop. On the right, several black and white photographs are mounted to a white wall.
Installation image of ten black and white rectangular photographs in two rows of five hung on a white wall. From the camera angle, they seem to be several landscapes.
Installation view of black and white images on the left wall. On the right, two white pedestals with pamphlets atop them.
Installation view of a dark room featuring three television monitors in a row perched on three white pedestals. In front of the monitors, sits a light wood colored bench.
Installation view of a dark room featuring three television monitors in a row perched on three white pedestals. In front of the monitors, sits a light wood colored bench.
Installation view of a dark room featuring three television monitors in a row perched on three white pedestals.
Installation view of a dark room featuring three television monitors in a row perched on three white pedestals.
Installation view of the exhibition featuring two walls. On the left, a large screen projects onto a wall. On the right wall, a small television monitor is mounted to the wall. In the middle, a light brown bench sits on the grey floor. The lights are off in the room with only the glow of the televisions and monitors lighting the room.
Installation view of a small television monitor mounted to a white wall. The lights are off in the room and the television monitor gives off a bluish glow from the still on the screen from the video.
Installation view of a small monitor in the exhibition featuring a small television monitor mounted to the wall. In front of it, a small white box for standing. Also mounted to the wall, a pair of black headphones.
Close-up installation view of a television monitor mounted on the wall with a still from the video, although it is illegible from the camera viewpoint.
Installation image of a white pedestal featuring a television monitor sitting on top of it.
Installation image of a white pedestal featuring a television monitor sitting on top of it.