Where are the rifts and fractures, the pivots and hinges, the tilts and balances between open and closed systems?

People do need to know that Polaris, the North Star, is always in the North. But in today’s world, daily life is increasingly digital, binary, polarized, on-off. At risk are the pleasures of ambiguity, possibility, change, and imagination.

Seeking the terrain that lies between open and closed, fixed and flexible, Open::Closed offers the viewer multiple vantage points from which to view the exhibition, disrupting the seemingly neutral experience of looking at art. At the same time, the exhibition focuses on works that explore the conflict between open and closed systems. It is with this double move—one that takes place first in the artworks themselves and then in the way those works are represented—that we ask the viewer and the works to anticipate the arrival of the unexpected.

David Diao Yevgeniy Fiks Rainer Ganahl Dan Graham Andreas Gursky Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung Craig Kalpakjian Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG Jennifer and Kevin McCoy Tsuyoshi Ozawa Kristine Potter William Powhida Hiroshi Sugimoto Kerry Tribe Martin Weber