Five winning proposals become apexart exhibitions
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Following the month-long submission process in October and the one-month voting period of November, apexart is excited to announce the winning exhibition proposals from the New York City Open Call. The following five exhibitions will be presented as part of the organization’s 2023–24 exhibition season.
apexart Open Call exhibitions are selected through a crowd-sourced voting process, in which hundreds of anonymous proposals are rated by an international jury of nearly 700 people. Without politics or “helping friends,” jurors review the written proposal idea, communicated in 500 words or less. This process ensures that the ideas are unique, compelling, and reflective of the hundreds of people who want to see them transformed from a proposal into an exhibition.
Five proposals were selected from 417 submissions, rated by 700 jurors who cast over 20,000 votes, with submissions and jurors representing more than 71 countries.
The winning New York City Open Call proposals for 2023–24
Jeroen Stevens: Welcome Home
Belgium
Mobilizing art as a radically transformative tool to challenge the revolving door between incarceration and homelessness in black American communities.
Yi Cao: If Shadows Could Shine
United States
Visualizing the erasure and displacement of marginalized communities through the metaphor of shadow.
Fabiola R. Delgado: Build what we hate. Destroy what we love.
United States
Amplifying the voices of Venezuelan migrants by articulating the social and cultural components that make up their mass exodus.
Lexington Davis: Fitter, Happier, More Productive
Netherlands
Explores the toxic underbelly of capitalist wellness culture, proposing instead alternative understandings of wellbeing that confront structural inequalities.
Bruna Shapira: Fruits of Labor— Reframing Motherhood and Artmaking
Brazil
Calls for a shift in the paradigms of both mothering and artistic expression by arguing that motherhood is not in conflict with artmaking but rather the prevailing narratives framing womanhood.
Interested in submitting a proposal to our upcoming International Open Call, being a juror, or using the process for class curriculum? Learn more here.
