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Peripheral Attention
curated exhibition, Royal College of Art, Jan-Feb 2024
participating artists: Ahed Al Kathiri, Else/Xun Zhang, Julia Agnieszka Issi, Yigo Jia
Peripheral Attention (2024) is a group exhibition that examines the texture of attention practised from multiple peripheries across explorations of diasporic longing, crip body, walking/drifting, and politics of care. Moving away from established knowledge structures where otherness is mapped, these explorations propose modes of attention that activate embodied and situated ways of knowing.
Artists were invited to hold space for slow, intimate engagement with the works: spatial conditions such as seats, cushions and curtains that guided the gestures of sitting, stopping, resting, staying, waiting. Part of the exhibition space was left empty to maintain its routine use as a rest space by nearby students.
This exhibition also featured a temporary library, where artists shared reference materials related to their works such as books, zines, objects and photographs for viewers to spend time with.
Curated by Else/Xun Zhang
With the generous support from Jordan Baseman and Chantal Faust