First-Person-Plural

First-Person-Plural highlights the multiplicities of selves that we all encompass, and how these personalities engage within the immediacies of contemporary conditions such as, the body’s will for survival, trauma, solitude and a compassionate, collective identity. The artists in this exhibition ask viewers to consider their own emergences of self that endure over time, make way for the future and that have the potential to soothe distant memories.

Our capacity for feeling and seeing each other as complete is crucial during this time where personhood is constantly coming under fire. The sacrifices of negotiating our identities can no longer be circumvented and pointed as an individualized concern. It bleeds into the communal consciousness. Many of the works here examine how we as a society can begin to harmonize this conflict by weaving together convergences of the reflective self, within the undercurrents of culture. As you encounter the work independently, and as a whole, consider the clash that you often experience between your personal embodiments of self. Now imagine how will you make room for your own radical truths that will, in turn, transform what lies ahead.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website