Artists
Judith Brotman – Chicago, IL; Leslie Anne Condon – Georgetown, MA; Corpus Callosum – Chicago, IL; Dasha + Zhanar – Kyiv, Ukraine / Moscow, Russia; Enrico Dedin – Musile di Piave, Italy; Tess Elliot – Norman, OK; Garrett Lynch IRL – Plymouth, England; JazzyJake Fetterman – Seattle, WA; Anna Haglin – Minneapolis, MN; Jean Hsi – Irvine, CA; Christina Reenberg Jensen & Karina Søby Madsen – Denmark; Mariah Anne Johnson –Los Angeles, CA; Markéta Kinterová – Prague, Czech Republic; Spencer Krywy – Chicago, IL; Darryl Lauster – Arlington, TX; Sara Lynne Lindsay – Provo, UT; Carson Lynn – Camarillo, CA; Moshopefoluwa Olagunju – Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Madison May – Chicago, IL; Janelle O'Malley – Union, IL; Jungho Park – Seoul, Korea; Trina Michelle Robinson – San Francisco, CA; Liz Rodda – Austin, TX; Jean-Michel Rolland – Marseille, France; William Roper – Altadena, CA; Leah Sandler – Orlando, FL; Ruoyi Shi – Alhambra, CA; Sylvain Souklaye – Brooklyn, NY; Kate Stone – Brooklyn, NY; Cristian Tablazon – Manila, Philippines; Mateo Vargas – Mexico City, Mexico; Emma Wood – Minneapolis, MN; Shan Wu – Taipei/Los Angeles/Massachusetts; Boyang Yu – Brooklyn, NY

Featuring 35 artists from across the United States and abroad, Interstice was an evolving and itinerant exhibition exploring the theme of interstices*: “in-between” spaces, moments, identities, ideologies, and states of being or perceiving.

Interstice began in May 2021 as a short-run exhibition featuring artist books, small sculptures, and sensorial installations. This experimental curatorial and catalogue project by Sarah Umles later expanded to include many more artists presenting work in expanded media including video, performance, net art, and social practice. Interstice activated space at Franconia Sculpture Park (Shafer, MN), Focus Arts (Minneapolis, MN), The Residency Project (Pasadena, CA), and MOTOR (Los Angeles, CA).

*Interstice (noun)
\ in-ˈtər-stəs \

1. a space that intervenes between things

a: especially one between closely spaced things, ie. interstices of a wall

b: a gap or break in something generally continuous, ie. the interstices of society

2. a short space of time between events

“Drawn on Marxian language and repurposed by Nicolas Bourriaud in his text, Relational Aesthetics, the term social interstices refers to a space that facilitates human social interaction. Marx refers to the term interstice as a pocket of trading activity that stands outside the capitalist framework. Similarly, social interstice as Bourriaud uses it references a similar defiance of the dominant system. In this case, social interstices are those spaces of free interaction that provide opportunities for social engagement outside of the norm.” –Indrani Saha