The Buoyancy Show

Lemp Brewery Complex

St. Louis, MO

Exhibition website: thebuoyancyshow.com

Exhibition Text:

Buoyancy occurs when an interaction between a body and its surroundings reveals the power of a medium to exert an upward force on a solid object.  Unlike gravity, which focuses our attention on the falling rock or grounded mass, buoyancy requires a shift in our perspective that embraces the larger field. When the buoyant object floats in motion, it displaces its surroundings, tracing invisible systems and behaving as if imbued with independent will. 

The artists in this exhibition give shape to this invisible force. They point to it, reflect it, encircle it. They wield it as a tool for upending the weight of postcolonial thought, expanding perception from segmented objects to a more inclusive field of interdependencies, where potential lies in the tendency to move fluidly and be fluidly moved.

Genesis Báez, Alex Boeschenstein, Alex Braden, Wanda Von Bremen, Ana B. Carrizo, Abby Flanagan, Derek Hoeferlin, Ariel René Jackson, Erin Johnson, Tova Katzman, William Lamson, Marie Lorenz, Lynne Smith, Anika Todd, Jess Vanecek

Included works:

7m cu ft (1-2), 2022, chalk pastel on paper, steel stands, magnets, 38"x72” (38”x48” drawings only)