“Inaction” — Brendan Fernandes
Jul 05, 2021
4 minutes
by Godfre Leung
It seems like a lifetime ago that curator Bartholomew Ryan characterized contemporary art’s newfound engagement with choreographers in 2014 as “drawing dance into the gallery and often asking it to behave more like an object.” It now feels weird when we go too long without seeing some form of dance in our art galleries. As I write this in mid-March 2021, it also seems like a lifetime since we’ve had dancers in our art galleries. Almost exactly a year, in fact.
Due to the pandemic, Brendan Fernandes’s exhibition “Inaction” is a mostly dancerless dance exhibition. Developed in partnership with the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at
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