Gallery Hours: 12–6pm
Opening Reception: 7–9pm
Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA) presents CAREOTICS: on giving and taking, a solo exhibition by Panteha Abareshi that examines how the disabled body is relegated to the fringes of visibility and yet made into a spectacle, bringing a complex duality to the nature of disability as performance. For Abareshi, the absence of autonomy makes room for fetishism to blossom, as the disabled individual is made into a tool for the able-bodied viewer to use as linguistic metaphor and/or as sexualized fetish object. In their work, the disabled body becomes a vessel for the taboo corporeal fears and desires of the able-bodied audience.
CAREOTICS: on giving and taking is organized by Jennifer Doyle, Caroline Ellen Liou, and Jeanne Vaccaro. Major support for the exhibition is provided by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, with additional funding from the English Department at the University of California, Riverside.
