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In Being Double

The Pace Staff Show

Past
Aug 4 – Aug 18, 2023
New York
 
Exhibition Details:

In Being Double: The Pace Staff Show
Aug 4 – 18, 2023

Gallery:

540 West 25th Street
New York

Online Exhibition:

Aug 4 – Sep 9
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Above: Annie Millman, Untitled (Apparitions), 2020 © Annie Millman

Pace is pleased to present In Being Double—an exhibition of artworks by the gallery’s international staff members, curated by Tumelo Nwanma (Gallery Coordinator) and John Richey (Senior Registrar)—at its 540 West 25th Street flagship in New York.

On view from August 4 to 18, the show will feature over 80 works spanning painting, sculpture, photography, printing, drawing, and film that reflect the creativity and imagination of Pace’s team across New York, Los Angeles, London, Geneva, and Hong Kong.

This presentation, organized by the Artist & Programming Engagement sub-committee of the gallery’s Culture & Equity team, will focus on enactments of doubling in everyday, lived experiences as well as the ecosystems that govern the natural environment. In their curatorial statement for the show, Nwanma and Richey write that In Being Double presents an opportunity for Pace staff members “to submit artworks that illustrate and explore their internal and external ecosystems. To inhabit the alter of their lives, and to allow the humanity of their hidden selves to exist in physical space across mediums.”

Explorations of selfhood—and negotiations between interior and exterior selves—cut across the works in the show. Together, these artworks can be understood as a portrait of the creatives, activists, and intellectuals in the gallery’s community.

The organizers of this year’s staff show have established a partnership with Glenn Quentin—an award-winning artist, founder of Higher Vibrations Collective, and collaborator at the Brooklyn-based nonprofit Recess Art—to devise a guided meditation to accompany the exhibition. A prompt written by Quentin, which will appear in a printed zine available on-site within the exhibition, will encourage visitors to consider the interconnectivity between themselves and the artists who welcome us into their personal worlds through the works on view. The zine will also include a curated reading list produced by the gallery’s Research and Archives department in collaboration with the exhibition’s organizers.

The in-person presentation of In Being Double will be complemented by an online iteration, which will include a selection of online-exclusive works alongside pieces that will be physically exhibited in New York. Quentin’s prompt and the reading list from the printed zine will also be digitally accessible through the online viewing room.

In Being Double continues a tradition of Pace staff exhibitions that goes back some 25 years in the gallery’s history. Through these presentations, Pace showcases and celebrates the artistic talents and diverse perspectives of its team members around the globe.

 
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Yadin Dickstein, 41.64582476619866, 41.65026619151196, 2015 © Yadin Dickstein

Online Exhibition

In Being Double

The Pace Staff Show

Aug 3 – Sep 9

Our digital iteration of this exhibition includes a selection of online-exclusive works alongside pieces that will be physically exhibited in New York.

Explore Now

 
Film

Explore In Being Double with Tumelo Nwanma and John Richey

Our new film features a conversation between the curators of the 2023 staff show—Tumelo Nwanma (Gallery Coordinator) and John Richey (Senior Registrar)—who discuss the themes and concepts at the center of the presentation. Explorations of selfhood—and negotiations between interior and exterior selves—cut across the paintings, sculptures, photographs, prints, drawings, and films featured in In Being Double, creating a portrait of the creatives, activists, and intellectuals in the gallery’s community.