Rent Is Too Damn High

Rent Is Too Damn High

Curated by Roma Primitivo Albear and Raul Zamudio
The Apartment
Apt.4S, 23 Avenue B, NY, NY
Opening October 18, 2017, 6-9pm
October 18-22, 2017

Artists: Diogenes, Julia San Martin, Avelino Sala, Damian Ontiveros, Aaron Burr-Society, Claudia Baez, Adolfo Doring, Stefano Cagol, Emma McCagg, Revjen Miller, Hawk Alfredson, Clayton Patterson, Agni Zotis, Toyo Tsuchiya, Rona Lebbo, Katya Zvereva, Daniel Sanchez, Nick McManus, Fly, Destiny Mata, Asya Stepanova, Russel Murphy, Roman Alver, Yasira Nun,Riiko Sakkinen, Marlis Momber, Antony Zito, Aubrey Roemer

Power Imagination Secret Society and Bureau of Curatorial Affairs are pleased to present Rent Is Too Damn High!, curated by Roman Primitivo Albear and Raul Zamudio.

Updating the platform of New York City’s independent political party by which the exhibition culls its title, Rent Is Too Damn High! is an exhibition of international artists that work in painting, work-on-paper, sculpture, installation, photography, video, and performance.

While the eponymous political party’s mandate was to reveal the ongoing displacement of communities in the wake of New York City’s real estate boom, Rent Is Too Damn High! expands these concerns to encompass other indirectly related issues that are of a global as well as a local nature. In doing so, Rent Is Too Damn High! comments on how transnational politics effects the social life of a neighborhood and vice versa. This symbiosis is easily discerned in the current U.S. presidential administration in which some of its members are both landlords in the greater New York City area and agents in policies negatively impacting the world-at-large. Further underscoring this dynamic is an art exhibition whose venue itself is in the ensuing battle of gentrification: in an apartment in New York City’s Losaida community.

Thanks to Cornerstone Cafe for their support of Rent Is Too Damn High!

[photo: Destiny Mata]