Curatorial Statement:

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is industrializing human cognition. In its wake, it has broken the boundaries between the who, how, and why of making. Placed exists to promote the radical inefficiency of the old guard: the handmade. We seek its culturally legitimate reinterpretation in an age of automated optimization. As an experiment in true authority, Placed presents an exhibition of earnest anarchy. 

These curated contemporary makers engage their media to seek the human, whether by reinterpreting industrial technologies and aesthetics, or by reorienting toward the hand and emotional quality. Doing so, they prove that the future of human-generated art lies in its natural, un-automatable friction. Sustained attention for the intellectual, physical and ethereal is the revolution we choose.