The group exhibition UN-SCR-1325 travels from Brussels to New York where it is presented until April 11 in the Chelsea Art Museum. The exhibition presents works by eight Belgian artists together with works by eight American artists: Vanessa Albury, Claire Beckett, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Jen DeNike, Kathleen Hanna & Becca Albee, Karin Hanssen, Kati Heck, Ann Veronica Janssens, Marie-Jo Lafontaine, Marlene McCarty, Sofie Muller, Adrian Piper, Adie Russell, Leah Singer, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, and Cindy Wright.
UN-SCR-1325, adopted in 2000, is the first resolution passed by the United Nations Security Council that addresses the impact of war and conflict on women. Instead of being illustrations of this political declaration, the individual works examine critical moments of social and psychological defect and disruption. Many of the works presented in the exhibition find their inspiration in concrete time and place. From the staged repetition of a random action in the work of Joëlle Tuerlinckx, to the notions of space and isolation in the work of Sofie Muller, to the relational complexity between ‘you' and ‘me' in Vanessa Albury's work and to the survival objects of collaborators Kathleen Hanna and Becca Albee: these works reveal how the artists reflect upon the here and now.
March 6 - April 11 in The Chelsea Art Museum, 556 West 22nd Street (at 11th Avenue), New York, NY 10011