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"(Hotel) XX" at SPRING/BREAK Art Show Curated by Indira Cesarine / The Untitled Space

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Wednesday, 7 March 2018 to Monday, 12 March 2018
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Tuesday, 6 March 2018 - 5:00pm to 9:00pm

PLEASE NOTE THAT "(HOTEL) XX" IS AN OFF-SITE EXHIBITION AT SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW, LOCATED AT 4 TIMES SQUARE (ENTRANCE AT 140 WEST 43RD STREET) IN NEW YORK CITY.

The Untitled Space is pleased to present “(Hotel) XX” a special project curated by Indira Cesarine at this year’s edition of SPRING/BREAK Art Show taking place from March 6th to March 12th in New York City. Known for being one of the world’s most innovative art fairs, SPRING/BREAK is an annual experimental platform for independent curators to exhibit works by emerging and mid-career artists. This year’s edition, which will feature over 100 curators, revolves around the theme “Stranger Comes To Town,” a phrase lifted from the old adage: “All great literature is one of two stories; a hero goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.” Works exhibited at SPRING/BREAK 2018 explore the tension between and merging of difference and sameness; them and us; narrator and audience. 

“(Hotel) XX” is an immersive installation and group exhibition, presenting the work of female identifying artists whose work explores the intimate experiences of the transient visitor, a traveler on a journey to a strange and new place. The installation is presented as a retro hotel reminiscent of a roadside stay off the highway. Travelers, lovers and drifters alike have left behind fragments of their history that became part of the hotel’s DNA, with memories lingering on the walls and each traveler’s experiences left behind through the artwork on display. Their encounters have been immortalized as imprints of visual mementos, each vividly charged with the intensity of the moments that took place in the room or in their dreams while sleeping in it. 

Art in a variety of mediums including photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, textile and video present the history of female “strangers” who have metaphorically or physically left their mark. The furniture in the room additionally creates an experiential framework. The title “(Hotel) XX” is a syntactical play on female sex chromosomes, and reflects the project’s focus on the female experience through a surreal and voyeuristic journey through time. 

EXHIBITING ARTISTS Alexandra Rubenstein, Brittany Maldonado, Brittany Markert, Dara Vandor, Fahren Feingold, Indira Cesarine, Jennifer Dwyer, Jessica Lichtenstein, Jessica So Ren Tang, Joette Maue, Julia Fox, Kat Toronto AKA Miss Meatface, Katie Commodore, Katrina Majkut, Kay Healy, Leah Schrager, Mairi-Luise Tabbakh, Meredith Ostrom, Myla Dalbesio, Polly Penrose, Rebecca Leveille, Renee Dykeman, Sam Cannon, Suzanne Wright 

Artists featured in “(Hotel) XX” include Alexandra Rubinstein, whose paintings explore how society and culture have shaped gender and intimacy; Brittany Markert, a photographer whose work explores intimacy and sexuality through dreams, fear and fetish; Dara Vandor who creates photo realistic pen drawings exploring desire, femininity and memory; Fahren Feingold, who creates intimate watercolors that give voices to women of past and present; Jennifer Dwyer who creates sculptures in porcelain depicting fragments of time or objects that may have been left behind; Jessica Lichtenstein who uses the female body as a mechanism to explore deeper themes of power, female representation, fetishism and objectification; Julia Fox who creates personal narratives by inviting the viewer to intimately explore the terrain of her mental landscape through self portraits; Mairi-Luise Tabbakh, whose erotic photographic works explore the sensuality of human relationships; Myla Dalbesio who is influenced by the examination of traditional and sexual femininity and the place where the two meet; Rebecca Leveille who explores intimacy through figurative emotional vignettes; as well as Sam Cannon, whose works create surreal universes, focusing on the manipulation of time, space. 

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

“I was influenced by classics such as Twilight Zone and Hitchcock as well as more contemporary references such as Twin Peaks and Elles, while exploring the theme of “Stranger Comes to Town.” My special project for SPRING/BREAK “(Hotel) XX” aims to shed light on the varied and deeply intimate experiences of women through a voyeuristic lens. I wanted to explore the memories that any woman may have had while staying in a roadside hotel. She is a woman - perhaps a lover, sex worker or victim of violence - on a trip to a new and unknown place, a transient visitor navigating the vulnerability and anxiety that often accompanies displacement. The female experience is often over simplified, through stereotypes and the objectification of women via the male gaze. This project presents the female perspective on intimacy without censorship or glorification. I find myself drawn to the theme of the female gaze as a powerful message and means to further investigate women’s experience. Historically, women have been highly marginalized, faced with double standards and oppression, and as such their perspective considered “other” or “alien” to patriarchal society. I wanted to create an immersive experience with “(Hotel) XX.” I was inspired by the idea of an exhibition within an installation that engages the viewer in a visual narrative allowing them to re-live female memories, dreams and fears, becoming privy to their most confidential thoughts and fantasies.” - Curator Indira Cesarine 

ABOUT INDIRA CESARINE

Indira Cesarine is a multimedia artist and curator. Touted as a “child prodigy,” Cesarine had her first solo exhibition at the age of sixteen at the Paul Mellon Arts Center. A graduate of Columbia University with a triple major in Art History, French and Women’s Studies, she additionally studied art and photography at Parson’s School of Design, ICP, SVA, The Art Students League and New York Academy of Art. Her work as an artist has been featured internationally at many galleries, museums and festivals, most notably The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Images Gallery, French Embassy Cultural Center, Art Basel Miami, Cannes Film Festival and Sotheby’s New York. In 2014, her public art sculpture, “The Egg of Light,” was exhibited at Rockefeller Center.

Indira Cesarine’s work as a curator includes ”Secret Garden,” an exhibition of 46 artists presenting the female gaze on erotica; “SHE INSPIRES,” a group show of 60 artists exhibiting works honoring inspirational women; the internationally-celebrated group shows “UPRISE / ANGRY WOMEN,” and “ONE YEAR OF RESISTANCE” responding to the political climate in America since the election of Donald Trump as well as numerous other critically-acclaimed exhibitions.

Over the past twenty years, her work has been featured in countless international publications including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, W Magazine, Newsweek, Forbes, and many other titles. She is additionally the founder of her own globally distributed publication “The Untitled Magazine.” As an artist and curator, she continues to explore her creative vision vis-à-vis traditional and new mediums and finds strength in examining new ideas in contemporary culture. Cesarine lives and works in Tribeca, New York. 

ABOUT THE UNTITLED SPACE:

The Untitled Space is an art gallery located in Tribeca, New York in a landmark building on Lispenard Street. Founded in 2014 by artist Indira Cesarine, the gallery features an ongoing curation of exhibits of emerging and established contemporary artists exploring conceptual framework and boundary pushing ideology through mediums of painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, video and performance art. The gallery is committed to exploring radical ideas vis-à-vis traditional and new mediums and highlights a program of Women in Art as well as special events aligned with our creative vision.

Recent press on The Untitled Space includes Vogue, CNN, Forbes, Newsweek, W Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Teen Vogue, New York Magazine, i-D Magazine, Dazed and Confused, and The Huffington Post among many others. http://untitled- space.com/press/ 

For more information on Indira Cesarine please visit http://indiracesarine.com/
For more information on exhibitions curated by Indira Cesarine for The Untitled Space visit http://untitled-space.com

Exhibition Contacts:

The Untitled Space info@untitled-space.com
Website: http://untitled-space.com/spring-break-art-show-hotel-xx-installation-exhibition           
Press Tickets: Lindsey@springbreakartshow.com
General Admission Tickets: http://springbreakartshow.eventbrite.com 

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Venue ( Address ): 

4 Times Square, Entrance at 140 West 43rd Street

The Untitled Space , New York

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