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Today’s show: “An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art” is on view at the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts through Sunday, July 16. The group exhibition brings together “twelve international artists to examine the recent multidisciplinary turn towards affect by focusing on art works that explore how bodies are shaped, modified, or affected by the intensity of their interaction,” according to the museum’s website. The participating artists are Andrea Büttner, Sophie Calle, Alejandro Cesarco, Jason Dodge, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Antonia Hirsch, Jill Magid, Park McArthur, Lisa Tan, Erika Vogt, Susanne M. Winterling, and Anicka Yi.
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (Loverboy), 1989, blue fabric and hanging device, installation view.
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Erika Vogt, Secret Traveler Navigator, 2010, single-channel digital video installation with sound, installation view.
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Erika Vogt, Secret Traveler Navigator, 2010, single-channel digital video installation with sound, installation view.
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Lisa Tan, Waves, 2014–15, HD video with sound, installation view.
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Installation view of "An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art," 2017, at MIT List Visual Arts Center.
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Antonia Hirsch, Black Echo, 2017, glass, steel, and Plexiglas.
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Installation view of "An Inventory of Shimmers: Objects of Intimacy in Contemporary Art," 2017, showing works by Andrea Büttner, at MIT List Visual Arts Center.
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Anicka Yi, After Democracy, 2016, silicone on panel, artificial flowers, and nylon filament, installation view.
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Susanne M. Winterling, Vertex (Metabolic), 2015, medium-density fiberboard, steel, black lightbulb, and gypsum powder 3-D print, installation view.
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