Artists from around the world gathered in Flushing Town Hall on Monday to wrap their art in boxes as part of an art exhibition called “Boxes: Lost in Circulation.”
On Friday, people visiting the art exhibition will open about 50 boxes that hold the artwork of 14 artists. Patrons will pay $50 per box — without seeing the art or knowing who created it.
The curator, Hyunsuk Kim, is hoping to blur the lines between famous and obscure artists by putting everyone’s work in indistinguishable boxes.
“An artist and a work of an artist are constrainedly positioned in the capitalistic system. An artwork is often being treated as worthless if it is a work of an unknown artist,” Kim said. “If your name is not a brand, your works are not born yet although they are made.”
Kim hopes that the exhibition will help “diminish inequalities among artists and to let people focus on artworks.”
RECOMMENDED STORIES
- Man writes book recalling his near-death Howard Beach crash
- Ridgewood couple charged in crime spree targeting moms with strollers
- Robber followed 88-year-old home from Resorts World, stole casino winnings: DA
