Throwing a Dart at the Wall and Drawing the Target Around It

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Chang Yuchen, Sky Murray, Snow Xuecan Ye, Solomon Rosenthal, Laurel Richardson, Bill Thud, Case, Dalia Sadeq, Maja Wittrup, Emmett Pinsky, Michael Rose, Alexander Kalil, Rainer Turim, Yuhan Shen, Yiying Wang, Emma Rose, Sanie Irsay, Constanza Valenzuela

Throwing a Dart at the Wall and Drawing the Target Around It is the first and only exhibition held at 28 Varick Ave, an empty, unused, windowless room in East Williamsburg. The show responds to a sudden opportunity: a week-long space between old and new tenants, a void that the curators decided, upon very short notice, to fill.

To throw a dart at the wall and then draw the target around it is to reverse an order of operations, so to speak, and in doing so both surrender to the curatorial eye of chance and control its contours by making one’s own—if retroactive—deliniatory marks.

It is no new thing, using randomness to make meaning. Throwing a dart stands on the shoulders of tea leaves, of Oblique Strategies, of yarrow stalks. When the works are installed—they have not been placed at the time of this text’s composition—a lattice of spontaneous dialogs, harmonies, and discords will emerge. Whether each viewer uses these spatial and semic relationships to build their own interpretive supertext, though, is out of our hands, is, you could say, up to chance.

The organizers of this show are artists posing as curators, presenting both their own work and the work of 14 emerging artists working under the surface of the commercial art world today, from Shanghai to Oklahoma.

Curated by Case, Maja Wittrup, Michael Rose, Emmet Pinsky