Sublime Encounters and Other Worlds, Residency Unlimited, NYC, April 30. - May 1., 2021

Irene Mamiye (France/New York); Peter Erik Lopez (New York); Rotem Reshef (Tel Aviv/New York); Paul Wesenberg (Berlin); Margrethe Aanestad (Norway/New York)
Curated by Andrea Bell (New York)

Sublime Encounters and Other Worlds transports the viewer from the monotony of the everyday to other worlds that are digital and engulfing, dream-like and uncanny, graphic and elevating, infinite and fathomless.

In classical Western aesthetics, the beautiful and the sublime are discrete categories. The beautiful is easily pleasing, it upholds dominant cultural standards of symmetry, naturalism, even availability. It is the object of desire. But when met with the infinite and the unfathomable, the sublime is the experience of confronting the self. Perhaps this is why the sublime has only grown in relevance, while the classically beautiful has fallen away.

- Andrea Bell, Curator

Photo: Daniel Johnson