Taking Susan Sontag’s critique of “over-interpretation” in Against Interpretation as its point of departure, the exhibition invites viewers to temporarily suspend the pursuit of meaning and return instead to the sensory, formal, and bodily experiences that artworks evoke.
Feel Before Meaning does not reject meaning. Rather, it attends to the moment before meaning takes shape: how light, sound, material, space, atmosphere, and emotion act upon us before language does.
This open call welcomes works that establish a perceptual relationship with viewers through form, material, sound, light, space, the body, or atmosphere. Artists working across all media and forms are encouraged to apply.
