New York , 2023
Stage Presence was the 2023 Bard MFA thesis exhibition curated by Marina Caron, presented at the Bard College Exhibition Center in Red Hook, New York.
“In its standard usage, the phrase ‘stage presence’ refers to a performer’s capacity to command the attention of a room. The phrase was also used by art critic Michael Fried in 1967 to condemn minimalist artists’ rejection of modernist artistic values of autonomy and absorption. In Fried’s account the minimalists instead embraced “the situation” in which an art object and viewer existed together, reflexively confronting an audience with their relationship to viewing.”
The typographic approach to the exhibition’s visual identity plays with the notion of ‘stage presence.’ Through shifts in scale, positioning, and the transformation of letterforms, each composition generates its own tensions and distinct modes of emphasis on the page.
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