Sight/Line
Interdisciplinary Practice in Art and Language

What are the ethics of looking? Who is granted humanity on the basis of sight, and by whose gaze? How is language aestheticized and positioned to craft messages of place, identity, gender, race, and power in our daily surroundings and conversations? When you find a work of art or writing that makes a part of you more legible to others, where do you draw the line between “feeling seen” by an artist and feeling consumed by an audience?

Sight/Line features the work of burgeoning artists who bend the borders between visual art, poetry, and prose. By bridging concepts and techniques in artistic and poetic composition, these artists critically examine how we use language to translate, define, and structure the world.