3RD SPACE
SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Special Projects | New York, NY

September 4—9, 2024

“3RD SPACE” is a collection of work that explores the intersection of art, feminism, and technology. This group exhibition brings together five artists who have been collaborating online since 2021. The title aims to define the undercurrent of the interior and exterior in the artist’s work, but also a third distinct space. As much as making is part of each artist’s practice, so too, is online collaboration. The artists work independently drawing from inter-personal experiences, memories, and lived experiences. The second space is the exterior environment these artists interact with—communities, neighborhoods, galleries, and other artists. The third space is virtual. In this space, anything can happen. People from around the world can come together, new communities are formed, and ideas are exchanged.

Marisa Bernotti blends her work as an agricultural machinery parts distributor with performance to reveal the complexity between environmental degradation, capitalist patriarchal structures, and holistic agricultural models in rural Uruguay. Through photography, video, and performance, Brazilian artist Carolina Chediak documents the renovation of her childhood home repurposed into an art residency space while wrestling with childhood and adult memories. Austrian artist Nina Gospodin combines her engineering skills with painting and sculpture to deconstruct architecture. Fiber artist Linda Marcus uses embroidery, found objects such as neon lights, and hand dyeing techniques to map out her life decisions. U.S.-Hong Kong based artist Tamera Bedford mixes Western and Asian imagery that explores perception distorted by distance.

These artists are part of Teleportal, an emerging art collective formed during the pandemic closures. Teleportal met following a virtual art residency at the School of Visual Arts in 2021 and continues to work online. This international and multigenerational group spans Brazil, Uruguay, Hong Kong, Austria, and the United States. The artists regularly meet online to critique digital images of their artwork, host workshops, and hold conversations. We, as women, reject the continued impersonality of the purely online model and produce in-person exhibitions in cities which enable us to have an international presence as artists.