Constructed, instead?

R/SF projects was founded as a home for alternative projects, experimental collaboration, and offbeat programming—a laboratory for unconventional happenings, and a place to explore ideas en masse. With a penchant for the ephemeral, cross-disciplinary, and experiential, R/SF actively hosts radical projects that could not exist elsewhere to foster true risk-taking among today’s cultural agitators. The space is run by Lauren Licata, Anička-Vrána Godwin, and Kaitlin Trataris as an ongoing experiment in collaborative curating and socially engaged programming.

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Constructed, instead? comes from an inner conversation with Susan Sontag’s essay Against Interpretation, in which she dives into what constitutes artistic style and idiosyncratic aesthetics. The question of style –inherent or not- has been raised often but it continues firmly and obstinately in spite of its opponents. With the notion of style, comes the question of whether it is secreted or constructed, and whether this can be distinguished at all.
This exhibition engages in this dilemma whilst highlighting constructed spaces, innuendos of depth and scale, and nonsensical narrative. Through the use of synthetic materials, magic and irony, Constructed, instead? brings artists who live and work in the Bay Area in dialogue about a sense of belonging in liminal spaces, imaginary realms and visual inquiries.
“What is inevitable in a work of art is the style. To the extent that a work seems right, just, unimaginable otherwise (without loss or damage), what we are responding to is a quality of its style. The most attractive works of art are those which give us the illusion the artist had no alternatives... the greatest art seems secreted, not constructed” (Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation)

Please join us for the opening of Constructed, instead? On Friday, May 20th 7-9pm at Residence/SF.
Featuring works by:
Maria Guzmán Capron // <A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.mariaaguzman.com" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.mariaaguzman.com</A>
Courtney Johnson // <A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.misscourtneyjohnson.com" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.misscourtneyjohnson.com</A>
José Joaquin Figueroa // <A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.josejoaquinfigueroa.com" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.josejoaquinfigueroa.com</A>
Nick Makanna //  <A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.nickmakanna.com" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.nickmakanna.com</A>
Sachi Moskowitz //  <A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.sachimoskowitz.com/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.sachimoskowitz.com</A>
Laura Rokas // <A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.http//laurarokas.com/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.laurarokas.com</A>
Lindsey White // <A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.lindseywhiteprojects.com" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.lindseywhiteprojects.com</A>

Curated by: Marcela Pardo Ariza
Special thanks to: Residence/SF (!!!)
 
Public Hours:
Thursday May 19th: 12-5pm
Saturday May 21st: 12-5pm

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