Columbia’s Wallach Art Gallery Presents HYPER-RESEMBLANCES

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University presents "HYPER-RESEMBLANCES," curated by Alison Coplan, Heidi Hirschl and Kathleen Langjahr. The exhibition is part of the MODA Curates series, an annual show opportunity offered by the Wallach and the MA in Modern Art: Critical and Curatorial Studies Program (MODA) of Columbia’s department of art history and archaeology for outstanding curatorial proposals related to students' theses. The exhibition will be open to the public from Wednesday, April 23 to Saturday, June 7, 2014.

Coined by philosopher Jacques Rancière, hyper-resemblance deftly embodies the theoretical underpinnings of each curator’s project. The term refers to an image that refuses to be defined by reality, establishing its origin and identity in the pursuit of a truer vision.

An exhibition in three parts, "HYPER-RESEMBLANCES" explores how modern and contemporary artists have experimented with different notions of representation as filtered through psychological, mechanical and digital lenses. In interchanges between embodied vision and the external world across various media, the groupings of works focus on relationships between subjectivity, image production and reality.

Alison Coplan’s REALITY FX explores how artists create and expose constructions of reality through digital technology The artists featured are Aram Bartholl, BFFA3AE, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Petra Cortright, Aleksandra Domanović, Marisa Olson, Hito Steyerl and Ryan Trecartin.

"Through the Looking Glass: Logics of Contemporary Self-Portraiture," curated by Heidi Hirschl, presents contemporary symbolic self-portraits. Included is the work of Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close, John Coplans, Xing Danwen, Andrea Dezsö, Carlee Fernandez, Tom Friedman, Julie Heffernan, Roni Horn, Jennifer Knaus, Dave McKenzie, Yasumasa Morimura, Vik Muniz and Evan Penny.

Kathleen Langjahr's "Cut, Print: Women Dissect Culture through Film and Collage" seeks to establish a genealogy in which film and collage are considered within a larger framework of montage techniques. Women artists played an essential role in the development of this history, and "Cut, Print" examines how and why these techniques lend themselves to examinations of identity and selfhood. An array of works dating from 1926 through the present traces this lineage. Artists are Maya Deren, Germaine Dulac, Hilary Faye, Hannah Höch, Breyer P-Orridge, Carolee Schneemann, Mickalene Thomas and Kara Walker.

The Wallach Art Gallery is located on the eighth floor of Schermerhorn Hall on Columbia’s Morningside Heights campus, 116th Street and Broadway, in Manhattan. The gallery is free and open to the public from Wednesday through Saturday, 1- 5 pm. For more information, call 212-854-2877 or visit columbia.edu/cu/Wallach.

The opening reception is Tuesday, April 22, 6-8 pm, followed by a special performance by artist Marisa Olson at 8 pm.

There will be a curators’ tour on Friday, April 25, 4-5 pm.