OPENING: 

09 December 2022. 

Until March 20, 2022.

WHERE: 

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts – Nebraska (USA).

Curated by SYLVIE FORTIN

Have you ever considered the interaction between the body and hospitality? Or have you wondered how hospitality could be made concrete? Or embodied?

Developed for the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts by 2019-2021 curator-in-residence Sylvie Fortin, the ambitious group exhibition brings together the works of 18 contemporary artists to explore corporeal hospitality. Hospitality is generally considered to be a philosophical concept with legal implications, an ethical concern or a social / political practice. This group exhibition shifts the focus to consider the hidden work of hospitality on our conceptual, physical, political and historical understanding of bodies. In the process, he reveals a legendary genealogy that points to the extractive intersection of race, gender, class, religion and worth. I don’t know you that way: The Bodywork of Hospitality digs this legacy and imagines other modalities of hospitality more than human.