Zarouhie Abdalian, Gwenneth Boelens, Liu Chao-tze, Joseph Grigely, Gordon Hall, Ian Kiaer, Shanta Rao, Elena Narbutaitė, Shanta Rao, Ma Qiusha, Kate Newby, and Katie West
Higher! Higher! Lower, Lower. Louder! Louder! Softer, Softer
Building from Shimmer’s first program of fading exhibitions in, through, and out of each other, we now shift rhythms by curating singular artworks over time. Higher! Higher! Lower, Lower. Louder! Louder! Softer, Softer embodies slow, deliberate processes with a changing register. By doing so, the exhibition moves like water, unfixed, in motion. We understand the exhibition as a choreographic score where through shifting rhythms, registers, and movements artworks overlap, where ideas and generations crossover. The format of our exhibition unfolds over time, opening up and crossing conceptual, spatial, and temporal borders. We are amidst times of profound environmental, global and mechanical change, where we need all the knowledge and crossovers we can get our hands on. On our horizon are radical shifts of what and how we mean to each other, how we come together and how we share. With this in mind, we curate to reconsider the past to shape the future, and to better accommodate us in the present. To not confine a history, a practice, a thought, an audience to particular categories, but to give us all as much room as possible to draw alliances with artworks and each other.





























































