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AUTOMAT
1400 N. American St

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Part 1: Utterances. April 9 - April 20, 2022

Part 2: Enduring. October 8 - October 29, 2022

ARTISTS

Rachel Hsu
Aaron Storm
Nicki Cherry
Jessica Fuquay

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This project was a two-part show emphasizing process and re-making, featuring four artists: Nicki Cherry, Jessica Fuquay, Rachel Hsu, and Aaron Storm. In the first iteration, on view April 2022, the show centered on the idea of the utterance. The second iteration, on view October 2022, took on the theme of enduring. Following the first part of the project, the artists were invited again later that year to show works that continued, transformed, or responded to the works present in the show’s earlier iteration.

The Third Body explores how we author some of the most interior experiences we have as beings-in-bodies – the ways in which we may convey experiences of pain, decay, difference, grief, tenderness, and care. In these expressions and recollections, the artists of The Third Body plumb the formal possibilities of language, memory, material remnants, and performance. Their work invokes the staying power of touch, of tending to bodies in pain and asking what is needed in their maintenance and transformation.

Performances by Aaron Storm and Jessica Fuquay.

All artworks courtesy of the artists. Documentation and text by Addison Namnoum and Lydia Smith. Co-curated by Addison Namnoum and Lydia Smith, 2022