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Amant Foundation hosts an annual program of exhibitions with international and local artists that highlight critical discourses connecting art with other cultural disciplines. We also host public programs designed to be a discursive extension of our residencies and exhibitions, including workshops, films, lecture series, readings, and performances. Amant also previews upcoming projects and research by our artists-in-residence that intend to provide valuable insights into the nature of art production and development.

Artists are invited to either present a single solo exhibition or discuss “chapters” of projects that are in development over a longer time frame. In doing so, it possibly permits them to “slow-down” the art-making process, experimenting with, or shifting formats, while also reflecting on the meaning and context of their work through time.

Photo: Heroines, Birds and Monsters series, Creon and Haemon, 2020. Archival pigment print on cotton paper mounted on Alu Dibond. Courtesy of the artist and Goodman Gallery.

Up next, Exhibition
Grada Kilomba. Heroines, Birds and Monsters
May 6 - September 15

Amant Foundation hosts an annual program of exhibitions with international and local artists that highlight critical discourses connecting art with other cultural disciplines. We also host public programs designed to be a discursive extension of our residencies and exhibitions, including workshops, films, lecture series, readings, and performances. Amant also previews upcoming projects and research by our artists-in-residence that intend to provide valuable insights into the nature of art production and development.

Artists are invited to either present a single solo exhibition or discuss “chapters” of projects that are in development over a longer time frame. In doing so, it possibly permits them to “slow-down” the art-making process, experimenting with, or shifting formats, while also reflecting on the meaning and context of their work through time.

Photo: Heroines, Birds and Monsters series, Creon and Haemon, 2020. Archival pigment print on cotton paper mounted on Alu Dibond. Courtesy of the artist and Goodman Gallery.

Amant investigates different study lines that guide and shape the exhibitions, residencies and events, avoiding divisions between disciplines and searching for non-hierarchical forms of knowledge. These study lines interest us as a means of creating long-term relationships between issues and ideas, projects, and collaborators, building upon a context that mutates and raises new meanings.

There are currently two initial study lines that we would like to explore in the upcoming year:

Hearing Voices
The phrase “hearing voices” has been associated with a state of mind where an individual hears words imperceptible to others. Drawing on the term’s flexibility, we like to think about “hearing voices” as a metaphor for a “listening” that generates real recognition, empathy, and understanding.
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Showing-doing
The importance of the body is particularly central in our programs through practices closely linked to performance. The theorist Richard Schechner described performance as a mode of operation or what he called “showing-doing,” in which an action is performed and rehearsed with a specific intentionality.
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