Eponymous
Bat-Ami Rivlin, Dominic Palarchio, Elzie Williams III
10 December 2021 - 26 February 2022
Opening Reception - Friday, 10 December 2021, 5 to 8 pm
M 2 3
24 Henry Street
New York, NY 10002
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M 2 3 is pleased to present Eponymous - an exhibition of new work by Bat-Ami Rivlin, Dominic Palarchio, Elzie Williams III. An opening reception will be held on Friday, 10 December 2021 from 5 to 8 pm (patio reception). Please note: Face coverings and compliance with social distancing protocols are required for entry. Capacity inside the exhibition space is limited per the discretion of the gallery. The exhibit will be on view 10 December 2021 though 12 February 2022. (Extended through 26 February 2022)
The proper task of a history of thought is: to define the conditions in which human beings “problematize” what they are, what they do, in the world in which they live.
By power… I do not understand a general system of domination exercised by one element or one group over another, whose effects… traverse the entire body social… It seems to me that first what needs to be understood is the multiplicity of relations of force that are immanent to the domain wherein they are exercised, and that are constitutive of its organization; the game that through incessant struggle and confrontation transforms them, reinforces them, inverts them; the supports these relations of force find in each other, so as to form a chain or system, or, on the other hand, the gaps, the contradictions that isolate them from each other; in the end, the strategies in which they take effect, and whose general pattern or institutional crystallization is embodied in the mechanisms of the state, in the formulation of the law, in social hegemonies. The condition of possibility of power… should not be sought in the primary existence of a central point, in a unique space of sovereignty whence would radiate derivative and descendent forms; it is the moving base of relations of force that incessantly induce, by their inequality, states of power, but always local and unstable. Omnipresence of power: not at all because it regroups everything under its invincible unity, but because it is produced at every instant, at every point, or moreover in every relation between one point and another. Power is everywhere: not that it engulfs everything, but that it comes from everywhere.
excerpts from Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality
Bat-Ami Rivlin (Israeli, b. 1991) holds an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts, New York (2019), and a BFA from School of Visual Arts, New York (2016). Rivlin’s recent solo exhibition No Can Do (2021) at M 2 3 was featured in Artform, Bomb Magazine, and The Brooklyn Rail; her A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship (2020-2021) culminated with the solo exhibition Untitled (inflatable house, zip ties, blower) (2021) at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Recent exhibitions include the two artists exhibition with Anna Holtz, Excess and Surplus, Sharp Projects, Copenhagen (2021); the tangential exhibition Maren Hassinge: We Are All Vessels, with Catherine Feliz, Joshua Leff (2021); Soft Windows, Public Swim, New York (2020); In/Between- Transfigure, New York Live Arts, New York (2020); Performing Authorship: 31 Days in March, curated by Saul Ostrow, PS122 Gallery, New York (2020); Seven Artists/Seven Works, M 2 3, New York (2020); Battleship Potemkin, curated by Rafael Domenech at Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami (2019). The artist was the subject of a solo exhibition It All Trembles, curated by Nicole Kaack, at NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY (2019). Forthcoming exhibitions include a three artist presentation with KRM Mooney and Cudelice Brazelton IV at the Hessel Museum at Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2022), curated by Dominika Tylcz.
Dominic Palarchio (American, b. 1995) holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI (2020), and a BFA with honors, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI (2018). Palarchio’s work has been included in several group exhibitions in and around his native Detroit, as well as the solo presentation A Christmas Story, North Pole Exhibitions, Chicago, IL (2019). He was a recent participant in The Studios at MASS MoCA Artist Residency Program, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, MA (2019). His work is currently included in the exhibition Homebody at Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (2022).
Elzie Williams III (American, b. 1993) is an MFA candidate (sculpture) at Columbia University School of the Arts, New York (2022), and holds a BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York (2015). They are the first recipient of the Solomon B. Hayden Fellowship, administered through Columbia University, NY. The award was founded to support diverse voices in art by Lisson Gallery, Clearing Gallery, and artist Hugh Hayden in honor of Hayden’s late father, Solomon B. Hayden who was a math teacher. Williams’ work was recently on view with Lyn Lui at François Ghebaly, New York (2021).
