(In)visibility: Artists from the Svane Gift and Beyond

(In)visibility: Artists from the Svane Gift and Beyond is the fourth exhibition in a series highlighting contemporary artists with close ties to the Bay Area. The eight artists and artist collective gathered here use a wide range of media—including film, installation, weaving, wood carving, and photography—to expose and counter the systems that decide who and what can and can’t be seen. Arleene Correa Valencia’s portraits of migrant families depict the marginalization and erasure experienced by those who exist between places, cultures, and identities. Stephanie Syjuco’s installation exposes how gendered images, costumes, and visual effects are used to rework American history into convenient yet incomplete narratives. The works on view explore themes of immigration, racial histories, surveillance, and gender. They ask, “What is the cost of being seen, and by whom? Whose invisibility is chosen, and whose is imposed? And what might be lost if everything were made visible?”

This exhibition series celebrates a generous donation from the Svane Family Foundation.