Excited to participate in booth 1117, an ecological refuge co-curated by Rachel Frank and Sarah Grass!

‘𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒗𝒆, 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒚, 𝑺𝒆𝒆𝒓’ is an immersive exhibition presenting new remedies, rituals, and responses to our collective ills by Vanessa Albury, Rachel Frank, Beatrice Glow, Sarah Grass, Heidi Norton, Kylin O’brien and Zulu Padilla.

Get your tickets now through here and come see us in September✨9/7-9/12, 11am-8pm, 625 Madison Ave.✨

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In response to a plague and a climate in crisis, Salve, Sanctuary, Seer is an ecological refuge. The artists included in this immersive exhibition will present new remedies, rituals, and responses to our increasingly tumultuous time. 

In the 1630’s the French town of Loudun was emerging from the plague during a time of increasing social unrest between the Catholics and the Huguenots. During this time of anxiety and division, multiple nuns from the local convent each claimed to be possessed by the devil. Staged exorcisms, accusations, and an obsession across Europe with the events at Loudun marked this time as medieval Europe moved into the age of Enlightenment and the public faced collective conflicts between the roles of mysticism, religion, the body, and scientific thought.  

Currently we are amidst an emergence (mostly) from our own pandemic era. The climate crisis is reaching a potentially non-returnable tipping point just as our own country has become increasingly fractured and politically polarized. During tumultuous times of upheaval, division, and chaos, where events seem largely out of personal control, historically the individual has searched for new rituals, myths, defenses, and strategies to grapple with difficult situations, which can manifest physically or spiritually. 

Amidst an over-abundance of plants to purify the air, Salve, Sanctuary, Seer, will present the works of Vanessa Albury, Rachel Frank, Beatrice Glow, Sarah Grass, Heidi, Norton, Kylin O’Brien, and Zulu Padilla. From the creation of an ecological current(cy), to the covering (or uncovering) of ceramic bones, to gathering offering vessels made for indicator species living in the liminal areas between land and sea, virtual world building based on past colonial injustices, the medicine of metaphor, non-human animals steeped in the symbolic, the cementing of objects (and memories) in resin and wax, and responsive crystal channeling, the artists included in this immersive exhibition will present new remedies, rituals, and responses to our increasingly tumultuous time.