https://newart.city/show/ofdisapperance
2022
”we are sorry to inform you that” is a self-organized digital exhibition that hosted around 30 rejected artworks in 2022. Through the pandemic artistic opportuities have become more and more scarce, leading to more rejections. This exhibition wanted to inquire where do the rejected artworks go? and what does it mean when an artwork is denied being part of the art’s public domain? Who capitalizes on this rejection? In “we are sorry to inform you that” an exhibition is an inquiry tool, a media art, a mediator, and an event where the notion of rejection in the art world is criticized and disrupted. It is an attempt to create a “Second Life” where rejected artworks or the “Dark Matter”* of the art ecosystem are experienced within a new context. The world\exhibition is also questioning the mechanisms of meaning, power, legitimization, and gatekeeping in the current art system by showing 30 previously rejected artworks from different regions. Some works look ultimately refreshing to the point that can make you wonder: why did the white cube deprive us of interacting with them? Other works look exactly like any ‘successful’ artwork that could’ve made it to the white cube. Yet they have been deprived of being there. It is a question of deprivation in both directions.
The “world\exhibition” has three “rooms\sections” which are: Of Disappearance, The Colors that Didn’t Make it, and Underrepresented Media.
*A metaphor by Gregory Sholette
Adele Jarrar
Palestine
Adele Jarrar is an independent curatorial & cultural worker, writer, and researcher, in url & irl, with a focus on self-organization, artist-run initiatives, and alternative modes of cultural production. She has curated several physical and digital exhibitions on several platforms. Digitally on New Art City, MozFest 2023, and Decentraland Metaverse.