Abdel Hassan
TURE
The body is something everyone is familiar with. We are born into one form, then the next. We experience the aging of this form as time continues to pass, and we see others in their many forms as we forge one path amongst many. The claim to your body is the one natural possession we have; not until death is it stripped.
Through hardship, change and even the mundane, we and our bodies are one.
Through the body, we endure the many expectations of what it means to be human. Love, companionship, passion, loneliness, pain, curiosity; all of us go through these rites of passage and celebrations of milestones.
Rite of Body is a showcase demonstrating this vastness of human experience. How can all this history behind us contrasted with our aging future continue to affect us? How can the forms that our bodies take influence us? How can the bonds forged through experience change our own futures?
By seriously considering what it means for us to experience life through the specific perceptions and experiences that are directly tied to our physical form and the passage of time, Rite of Body entrusts its viewers to consider their own experiences with change. Our artists reflect upon the physical body and the discomfort within themselves, just as often as the beautiful, or the mundane, or things others might simply pass by without question. Our voices are a collective cry for there to be critical thought put into the way you walk through life, dear viewer. We believe there is beauty and contention within the unseen around us, and we encourage you to take your life within your own hands and use it purposefully.
Rite Of Body presents sculptural pieces alongside digital and analogue photographs, as we look at the beauty in the static image as well as in new recontextualizations of video assemblages. With every passing season, the third-year class grows more passionate and powerful and we are pleased to share this work with you. We ask that you create on purpose, that you delight in the fact that your unique human experience will be understood by no other, and that you take care in knowing that the time will pass by you anyway.
Syd Deneau
Theresa Duerr-Farrell
Abdel Hassan
Eufemae Menendez
