Ghost Body

October 25 - November 24, 2024

Alicia Wright, Brandon Dalmer, Eric Chengyang, Emerald Repard-Denniston & Olivia Aguiar, James Rollo, Joshua Rogin, Khadijah Morley, Lesia Miga, Onyeka Oduh, Sarah Zanchetta, Vanessa Rieger, and Yoona

Curated by Ciar O'Mahony. Film Program curated by Joshua Rogin.


Screening series dates:

Hell House LLC
Saturday, October 26

The Deeper You Dig
Saturday, November 9

I am the pretty thing that lives in the house
Saturday, November 23

Doors at 7:30, films start at 8

Ghost Body explored the various ways ghosts, or "ghostliness” manifests aesthetically in visual art and popular culture by bringing together a diverse group of thirteen artists. Although works in the show ranged  in media from textiles to data collection to video installation, many tropes such as distorted or translucent human bodies, disembodied hands, and slow uncanny movement, among others, persist across the works presented. Where do these tropes, many of which have endured through hundreds of years of ghost stories, come from? And, what can their aesthetic traditions teach us about fear?