MAIN GALLERY:

Our physical embodiment, our bodies, are how we experience the world and are our vehicle for ethical positions. With the current political uncertainty and mistrust supporting the movement towards increasing levels of alienation and inequality, the disappearance of solid community based interactions have contributed to a sense of disentanglement for many.

For the purposes of this exhibition a simplified form of individual social capital in civil societies, (rather than governmental) is anything that facilitates individual or collective action, generated by networks of relationships, reciprocity and trust, forming network relationships between associational life and thus the potentials of democracy.  Such is art and art openings. This project asserts the importance of community to build generalized trust and at the same time, the importance of individual free choice, in order to create a more cohesive society and that social capital is fundamental to a healthy democracy. Questioning of the status quo, diversity of ideas and origins, new ways of being, rethinking the now and the possible future all allow the individual to breathe and the collective to progress, together.

These artists remind us of this pivotal plight for ourselves - the individual’s expression and the needs of the group, via representations of the body. These artworks remind of us of the pleasures and pitfalls of this need - from the alienation of the isolated body or the oppressed set, to the power and joys of human interaction.