➔ Series
➔ Curation
➔ OUR TEAM
The Catchers Curation is a non-profit curatorial team co-founded by current BFA VCS student Jingyi Dou. Brought together by a common wish to redeem abandoned student artworks, the collective consists of 40 full-time students from universities across the globe.
THE CATCHERS CURATION
About US
My role In the Team
ADAM CHEN - Co-curator, Design Team Leader & Marketing Member.
➔ EXHIBITION Overview
By the end of each art school’s semester, there are piles after piles of student artworks thrown out into the trash, taken into the dumpster to be buried, burned, destroted. The Catchers collected more than a hundred and seventy of these pieces from the previous fall and spring semesters, some stright from the bins, others right before the works were collectively disposed by the art schools in which they are created.
01.
Tale of the Abandoned: salvaged Works from Art School Waste
Some pieces were never intentionally “abandoned”, and we hope to find their creators through this exhibition; others we obtained consent from the artists for them to be displayed and their stories to be told.
02.
OUR REASON
➔ Visual
➔ DOCUMENTATION
➔ A littlr bit more…
*Tale of the Abandoned* wants to convey more than just about the stories of the salvaged works; we hope to shine light on the concept of “abandonment” itself, to invite our dear audience to join us in the contemplation of abandonement: How and why does it come about? When do we notice what we abandon, and when do we not? When we abandon something, where does it go? Can we ever truly abandon anything at all? …