#kijidome

One/Thinking Two/Willing

Adam Marnie and Matt Wycoff

Organized by Dawn Light Blackman

Institutional Boston art can get a bad — well, at least boring — rap. But this year's Foster Prize, the Institute of Contemporary Art's biennial award and exhibition started in 1999 to showcase area artists, is anything but. Non-objects, collectives, magic, and more make up this show which focuses on "performance and collaborative modes of art-making."

Featuring artist-collective kijidome, which plans themselves to curate their space at the ICA and take artists in residency at their South End location, New Art Love favorite Ricardo De Lima, multimedia artist Vela Phelan, and the transient work of Sandrine Schaefer, the exhibition will be a true insight into what Boston art can be.

The Foster Prize Exhibition, organized by John Andress and Jenelle Porter, will be on view at the ICA Boston from April 21 through August 9, 2015.

"That's a tough thing. In doing this, in spite of everything we've said at the outset, I've noticed it's really difficult for us to try not to set ourselves against the standard of the gallery model. It's really hard not to let that invade your thinking, and to keep feeling playful and generative. Unconsciously even, you look to other galleries to figure out what you need to do based on what they do. There are certain things that are just utilitarian like press releases. We're all pretty new to the Boston area, and have the sense that many of these things have happened here many times before. Looking around, our models are in other cities because we're coming from other cities. In Brooklyn, you have the full spectrum of artist-run spaces that treat themselves very much like galleries, and like artist-run spaces that treat themselves like a process experimental space." - Sean Downey in conversation with Editor Stephanie Cardon and the members behind kijidome (Lucy Kim, Carlos Jiménez Cahua, Susan Metrican), a new collaborative art space in Boston [continued at Big Red & Shiny...]

(On view in their first exhibition S01E01)