Corporeal Gestures – An International Exhibition of Contemporary Collage
April 4-29, 2022
Opening April 7th, 5pm-7pm
School of Architecture, Shattuck Hall 2nd Floor
1914 SW Park Avenue [use NW entry]
Portland State University
Portland, OR 97201

In 2019 local collage maker Clive Knights put out an international call for submissions of new work from collage artists, asking them to respond to nine “muses,” characterized as the bodily necessities of breathing, nourishing, sleeping, discharging waste, procreating, resisting the earth’s pull, communicating, aging and dying. The result is ‘Corporeal Gestures: An International Exhibition of Contemporary Collage,’ a curated collection of work by more than 100 collage artists from 21 countries.

The work presents a diverse response to the ways in which our actions, rhythms, relationships and shared experience of being alive are both predetermined and made possible by the modicum of matter borrowed from the world that constitutes each of our bodies. The project challenged collage artists to consider how one’s body is activated in the world – acting, gesturing, making – amidst the shared rhythms pertaining to our common, mortal predicament in a single, unfolding cosmos. A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

On exhibit throughout the 2nd floor of Shattuck Hall will be enlarged representations of 114 collages submitted by collage artists from as far away as Australia, Brazil, Ukraine and 18 other countries, including many from the USA.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Please contact the curator Clive Knights, 503 701 7264, knightsc@pdx.edu