Too good to be OK

September - December 2023

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Served as the project curatorial assistant for Julian Abraham 'Togar's' first institutional solo in the United States, which took place at SculptureCenter NYC. As part of my work under deputy director Kyle Dancewicz, I prepared several research dossiers for the artist, conducted studio visits and wrote an essay for the exhibition that formed a part of the exhibition booklet. Excerpt from the press release below: 

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​Too good to be OK continues and builds upon Julian Abraham “Togar”’s long term work with sound, ranging from percussive signals in urban spaces to shared communication through music, bands, and jamming. Sound has been both a central medium in Togar’s individual practice and a feature of his socially-directed and collaborative projects. The exhibition in New York incorporates sonic elements from works first generated in other social and political contexts, underlining a stance of global decolonial solidarity derived from the artist’s position living and working in Indonesia. With newly-commissioned musical instruments, audio works, kinetic sculptures, video, painting, and live events, Too good to be OK is Togar’s experiment with the “ongoing-ness” of his expansive form of artmaking. Moving forward, his work will develop new sounds, recompose itself as it shifts contexts, and distill ideas and methods from past endeavors to open the potential of new shared acoustic spaces.

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Link to exhibition page and images:

https://www.sculpture-center.org/exhibitions/13764/julian-abraham-togar-too-good-to-be-ok​​

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Exhibition Catalog with essay: 

https://www.sculpture-center.org/files/Togar_Gallery_Guide_spreads_1_.pdf