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Performing Healing: Rituals & Repetition — Exhibition by Diana Chen ’21

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Dates

November 30, 2020 - May 2021

Location

Online

Admission

FREE and open to public

Visual Arts senior Diana Chen ’21 presents “Performing Healing: Rituals & Repetition,” a virtual exhibition of work.

“Performing Healing” explores the therapeutic role of rituals and repetition during times of crisis and change. Using found objects, personal items and other memorabilia, the work depicts healing as an alchemical performance in which we re-live, re-tell and re-enact through simple repetitions of movement. Drawing inspiration from Buddhism, Jungian psychology and creation myths, the work seeks to re-trace the symbolic journey from distress and fragmentation to healing and wholeness.

VIEW THE EXHIBITION

The exhibition is free and open to the public to view at 185nassau.art (link to view work is only available during exhibition window).

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

colorful loose tea in piles in egg carton

All the teas I drink consistently (2020); egg carton, printed labels, assorted tea leaves 8.3 x 11.5 in. By Diana Chen '21

shells rocks and plant life laid flat and marked as a collection

Recollections (2020); handmade washi paper, Kraft paper tape labels, found objects 21 x 28 in. By Diana Chen '21

shells laid out in grid pattern on kraft paper

stationary no. 1 (2020); used packaging material, jingle shells 9.5 x 14.5 in. By Diana Chen '21

black and white grid of images of matchboxes

diorama (2019); photocopy paper, matchboxes 42.5 x 46 in. By Diana Chen '21

shells in a bathtub

Still from Submerged (2020); single channel video; bathtub, water, compartmentalized collection box, jingle shells, Kiehl’s lavender bubble bath. By Diana Chen '21

colorful image projected in sink

Still from Cleansing (2020); single channel video; sink, water, matchboxes, found objects. By Diana Chen '21

diana with camera on rod over chair over bathtub

Diana Chen sets up her camera in preparation for her exhibition.

smartphone held by rods overtop of bathtub

Diana Chen sets up her camera in preparation for her exhibition.

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  • Program in Visual Arts

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