Whispers From The Corner of My Eye

Group show in Palazzo Maro accompanying the 60th International Venice Biennale of Art in Venice, Italy

Installation shot

Full exhibition statement:

Taboo. Fetish. Hybrid. Obsession. Bizarre. “Whispers From the Corner of My Eye” invites the undercurrent out of the periphery. The work highlights narratives of the untold and the ephemeral, displaying unconventional bodies and uplifting unheard voices. After exploring Adriano Pedrosa’s theme, “Foreigners Everywhere,” the artists unearthed a suppressed desire to engage with the subliminal, recognizing it as foreign or ‘other’. Through photography, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles, some pieces prompt somber reflection while others take a more playful perspective. Each artwork is uniquely striking, yet when woven together they generate a visceral conversation about systemically silenced issues.

About the exhibition:

“Whispers From the Corner of My Eye” presents undergraduate students of diverse backgrounds at the University of Southern California Gayle Garner Roski School of Art and Design in Los Angeles: Georgia Helena Burki, Erin Cross, Jayna Dias, Emily Eid, Lauren Jian, Ada Liv, Maxim Marshall, Dylan Michaels, Roya Nadim, Jeana Park, Isa Perez, Marina Stamato, Ari Silverman, and Terrie Yu, working with instructors Thomas Mueller and Julia Paull and with guidance by Dean Haven Lin-Kirk.

To watch the Dean speak on the exhibition, click here.

Open to the public and free.
April 20th - November 24th, 2024
Open everyday from 10:00 to 18:00
Closed on Tuesdays

Palazzo Mora
Strada Nova, 3659, 30121 Venezia VE, Italy

Sveti Georgi (it's all within us), 2024.
Oil on fabric, embroidery, photograph, and wood.
15.5 x 1 x 26 inches (39.4 x 2.5 x 66 cm).

Saint George is a widely celebrated figure in both Christian Orthodox and Islamic traditions. Born in Cappadocia, Saint George’s most famous story involves him slaying a dragon in Silene, Libya. The dynamic of the horse, saint, and dragon is reminiscent of the Holy Trinity and Jung’s Theory of Personality (id, ego, superego). In the West, the id or our more primal essence, has been deeply demonised whereas in other canons, like in China, the dragon is revered as a sacred link between Heaven and Earth. At the center we see the outline of the Womb Cave, or Ytrobota, found in Southern Bulgaria. It is embroidered in the Rhodope fashion of my Bulgarian ancestors. The photograph on the right was taken in my village and echoes Saint George’s spear piercing the Earth (one of my allegories of the id). I view the dragon, the Earth, and the woman as powerful forces that have been misunderstood through the ages and therefore slayed by men and religion to the detriment of the collective.