We are pleased to announce our permanent NYC location's debut show, “Love” along with the grand opening featuring three pieces of performance art at 227 E 24th St on June 27, from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm.

This exhibition is featuring the latest work, mostly unshown and site-specific, from Ching-Wei Wang (Way); Ellen Carpenter; Edd Ravn; Felisa Nguyen; Ibtisam Tasnim Zaman; Magali, A Cult. Untapped, the Collection, our special programming that spotlights cross-disciplinary explorations with transformational results in Anthropology and Art will showcase 3 “rooms” by Agen Xin; Hongshan; Zackery Yao.

EXHIBITION THEME

Love permeates our everyday lives, existing between and beyond “emotion” or “affection”. Flexible in interpretations and expressions, love escapes definition and erodes barriers, moving among people, across places. It emerges as central and at margins, loudly and subtly, in the personal and shared. For some of us, love is an emotion. For others, a choice, a passion, or a means of survival. It can be beautiful and tender but also anxious and painful. We derive our conceptualizations from experiences of love with friends, family, lovers, and ourselves, and sometimes, in spite of it.

Through combining art and anthropology, our exhibition aims to translate dynamisms of love from the eyes of each artist— love as strength, love as beauty, love juxtaposed against loss, love despite hurt, and love in the face of death.


CURATOR'S  WORDS

In anthropology, the terminology of love refers to the diverse ways different cultures conceptualize, experience, and express love. While interpersonal and romantic love are common associations, this exhibition gathers artists across geographies and identities to explore the expansive nature of love, not only as an emotion, but as a navigation, a cultural force, a medicine to historical wounds, an intimate ritual to alignment.

Love, as the most universal yet contextually elusive human experience, weaves through kinship structures, nation-building, resistance, and self-making. In this exhibition, the personal revokes the shared sentiments, and the universal returns to the individual. Some works burn with the fury of unspoken longing. Some whisper through the dignity of collective memories. Each artwork is a fragment of a collective inquiry: What does it mean to love — and to be loved — across identities, across borders, across nations, across dimensions, across time?

We invite you to 227 E 24th St to see and perceive the fracture and the pulse, in "love”, from June 27 to July 6.

HOURS

June 27: Official Opening and Reception
6:50pm - 7:00pm: Wreck (Salary) by Magali, A Cult
7:30pm - 7:50pm Maintain Status Quo Indefinitely by Ching-Wei Wang (Way)
8:10 pm - 9:40pm Hair Care by Ellen Carpenter
June 28  noon to 6 pm
7:30pm - 10:00pm: Private Dinner Collaboration with Happenings: Chef Amit Kumar & Artist Ibtisam Tasnim Zaman
For seats reservation, please find more information here.
June 28  noon to 6 pm
June 29  noon to 8 pm
June 30  noon to 8 pm
July 1       noon to 8 pm
July 2      noon to 8 pm
July 3      noon to 8 pm
July 4      noon to 8 pm
July 5      noon to 8 pm
July 6       noon to 6 pm



About ModA Curations
ModA Curations is a creative organization bridging contemporary art and sociocultural anthropology. Functioning as a sub-entity of Modern Anthropology (ModA) Studios, LLC, ModA Curations operates virtually with in-person, bi-annual exhibitions, showing spring and fall in New York City and Los Angeles, respectively. ModA Studios was founded in the Fall of 2023 by Executive Director and Anthropologist Georgian “George” Fan. 

ModA Contact
George Fan, Executive Director
484.892.7011 
george.fan@moda-studio.com


Media Contact
Lainya Magaña, A&O PR
347.395.4155 
lainya@aopublic.com