HESTER: RECALCULATING ROUTE — All Street Gallery

PRESS RELEASE
NEW YORK, NY - All Street Gallery presents Recalculating route…, a group exhibition curated by Queenie Wu, brings together artists whose practices challenge the standards of locative media, where value is derived from legibility.

Navigation technologies, geospatial platforms, and mapping tools have long promised to make place more accessible, more searchable, more shareable, and more known. But that legibility comes at a cost. The closer in detail a place is mapped, the further it moves from the people nearest to it.

Recalculating route… reimagines top-down, satellite view maps as bottom-up acts of storytelling, resisting surveillance and control. The artists’ orientation, navigation, and documentation tools prioritize proximity and presence over the notion of newfound arrival and discovery.

The interactive media exhibition features installations, and activations by Spencer Chang, Elizabeth Kezia, Ashton Reeder, April Soetarman, Owen Trueblood, and Queenie Wu. As part of the opening reception, some pieces will be activated through performance or guided interactive experience extending beyond the gallery walls, while others contain an accumulative, temporal, or changing element. The exhibition is designed as a durational opportunity for encounters and exchange, rather than a single destination.

About All Street Gallery:
Founded in 2018, All Street Gallery is a gallery and platform for emerging and underrepresented artists whose work focuses on social engagement and community empowerment. Initially created as an artist collective and grassroots protest organization, All Street is driven by its roots in the city’s creative community. The gallery’s mission is to use art as a means of protest, resistance, and social change, highlighting voices that challenge the status quo. After opening its first location on East Third Street in the East Village, All Street expanded in 2023 with a second space at 119 Hester Street. Both locations continue to provide a platform for artists whose work addresses important social and political issues.

For inquiries please contact:
gallery@allstnyc.com
646 335 3717

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