As a person who has navigated through life with a disability, I cannot express enough my admiration for exhibitions like “Smoke & Mirrors” at the Zimmerli Art Museum. This exhibition, curated by Dr. Amanda Cachia, is a breath of fresh air that finally brings the often-overlooked barriers faced by disabled individuals to the forefront.
For able-bodied audiences, navigating through a museum or exhibition can be a straightforward experience. For those with disabilities, however, the barriers they face are often overlooked.
The Zimmerli Art Museum recently introduced a fresh collective exhibition, titled “Smoke & Mirrors“, which highlights artworks created by artists from various parts of the globe who have disabilities. This display explores accessibility through themes like transparency, conflict, and humor as each artist exposes institutional disparity in their unique way.
Dr. Amanda Cachia, the exhibition’s guest curator, explains that it offers a unique viewpoint from a person with disabilities or a disabled artist. The purpose is to reveal aspects of life that we often overlook or consider commonplace,” she says, using the term ‘smoke and mirrors’ to emphasize this idea.
Smoke & Mirrors is a study delving into the concept of “access aesthetics,” a genre introduced by Dr. Cachia in her book The Agency of Access: Contemporary Disability Art & Institutional Critique. Moving beyond political representation, this artistic style concentrates on expressing experiences through sensory broadening, tactile interaction, and physical motion, providing insights into the sensation of coexisting with disability.
This exhibition showcases various art forms such as video, sketches, statues, textiles, and multi-media displays, all contributed by 14 artists hailing from different parts of the world. With their diverse backdrops and personal histories, these artists collaborate to provide a broader perspective on what it means to live with disabilities.
I’m super pumped! The exhibit “Smoke & Mirrors” is up and running at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, and it stays there until December 22, 2024. If you’re a gaming enthusiast like me, don’t miss out on this visual journey!
Zimmerli Art Museum
71 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ, 08901
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2024-09-18 18:00