The group exhibition Sublime Encounters and Other Worlds at Residency Unlimited, NY, showcases recent and new works by Irene Mamiye (France/New York); Peter Erik Lopez (New York); Rotem Reshef (Tel Aviv/New York); Paul Wesenberg (Berlin); Margrethe Aanestad (Norway/New York). The exhibition is curated by Andrea Bell (New York).

Sublime Encounters and Other Worlds transports the viewer from the monotony of the everyday to other worlds that are digital and engulfing, dream-like and uncanny, graphic and elevating, infinite and fathomless.

In classical Western aesthetics, the beautiful and the sublime are discrete categories. The beautiful is easily pleasing, it upholds dominant cultural standards of symmetry, naturalism, even availability. It is the object of desire. But when met with the infinite and the unfathomable, the sublime is the experience of confronting the self. Perhaps this is why the sublime has only grown in relevance, while the classically beautiful has fallen away.

- Andrea Bell, Curator

Open April 30. & May 1. 11am – 7.30pm. 360 Court Street, Brooklyn (Subway F/G to Carroll Street).

Residency Unlimited is a non-profit art organization in Brooklyn, NY that fosters customized residencies for artists and curators working across disciplines and at various stages in their careers.