Exposure

Exposure

Michele Araujo, Daniel Bodner, Anna Campbell, Joy Episalla, Thomas Fougeirol, Craig Jun Li, Linda Matalon, Linn P. Meldt, David Nelson, Hol Ogram, J Pasila, Carlos Reyes, and Jo-ey Tang

Opening Reception: Friday, March 7, 6—8 pm

exposure (from the Merriam-Webster dictionary)

1: the fact or condition of being exposed: such as

• a: the condition of being presented to view or made known
• b: the condition of being unprotected especially from severe weather
• c: the condition of being subject to some effect or influence
• d: the condition of being at risk of financial loss

2: the act or an instance of exposing: such as

• a: disclosure of something secret
• b: the treating of sensitized material (such as film) to controlled amounts of radiant energy

also : the amount of such energy or length of such treatment

3: a: the manner of being exposed

• b: the position (as of a house) with respect to weather influences or compass points

4: a piece or section of sensitized material (such as film) on which an exposure is or can be made.

In this historic moment of fracture and collapse, sustenance comes from connections with others and a cobbled-together sense of community that emerges through our exposure to each other. Each of these artists engage with different forms of exposure. I am thinking about the multiple and layered meanings of exposure: beginning with photographic exposure as a process and extending outwards to objects, and how they travel through the world—permeable, always precarious, provisional, never unscathed, and subject to the variables of weather, handling, chance, climate and light.

Several of the artists know each other more intimately than I know them. Some only know one or two of the others. Two are collaborative entities. One is the parent of half of one of those entities. Some share long histories. One was the student of another. One is no longer with us. Together, they/we form a particular constellation of affinities.

—Carrie Yamaoka