Filtered Matter

Curated by Oorja Garg, Tom Koren, Daniela Marin, Abbas Malakar, Sophia-Maria Takvorian, Gabriela Valentin, and Zihan Zhang

Artists: Fatma Bucak, Juan David Laserna, Lorie Novak

April 18 - May 1, 2024

The MA Curatorial Practice program is pleased to present Filtered Matter, an exhibition about social filtration, mechanisms of control, the selective flow of information, and the algorithmic rhythms that define our lives.

Methodologies of filtration are typically associated with chemical and ecological spheres. However, filtration also plays out on a grand scale of socio-cultural and political narratives. Filtration becomes a system of knowledge production, cultural refinement, political manipulation, and is a constant negotiation between the seen and the unseen.

Filtered Matter looks at models of information consumption and dissemination and how peripheral histories and materials are pushed to the edges through these infrastructures. What does the act of filtration look like on an individual and collective level? How does it manifest itself in both visible and invisible ways? How does the culture industry distill our social and epistemological landscapes? Who controls the filtration of mega-narratives that create history and our perceptions of the world we live in?