15 Art Shows to See in NY This Summer
The tension between material and subject, and the question of whether the two are ever in harmony, are quandaries as old as art history. Dadas las Circunstancias, Spanish for “given the circumstances,” features 11 artists who seek to preserve the memory of a place, narrative, or experience, testing the limits of their chosen medium to evoke and index. Highlights include Gabriel Chaile’s pareidolic sculptures of welded and engraved aluminum pots, which reference soup kitchens in Argentina, and Livia Corona Benjamin’s photographs memorializing abandoned grain silos in rural Mexico. —VD