NY | Alice Miceli: Project Chernobyl at America’s Society

Image: Alice Miceli Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, radioactive woods, Belarus, 2008

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Join ArtTable NY for a private curatorial walk through of Alice Miceli: Project Chernobyl at the America’s Society. 

This exhibition presents Alice Miceli’s Projeto Chernobyl (Chernobyl Project), a series of 30 radiographs produced in 2006–2010. Miceli developed a method of image making to document the enduring effects of the Soviet nuclear plant explosion of April 26, 1986. Though gamma radiation continues to be present and to cause health problems and deaths in the area, it is invisible to the naked eye and to traditional methods of photography that have been used to document the region’s ruins. With Projeto Chernobyl, Miceli made this contamination visible via direct contact between the radiation and film, which was exposed in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone for months at a time. Both technically and conceptually complex, Miceli’s work questions our ideas of vision, memory, politics, and environmental issues.

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Diana Flatto is assistant curator, Visual Arts at the Americas Society, where she has co-curated Alice Miceli: Projeto Chernobyl and assisted on Walls of Air: The Brazilian Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For and Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking. Prior to that, she worked for over five years as a specialist at an auction house. She graduated from Brandeis University with a BA in art history and business, and earned an MA in art history with an advanced certificate in curatorial studies from Hunter College, where she co-curated exhibitions including Framing Community: Magnum Photos 1947–Present and Copy, Translate, Repeat: Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

Carolina Scarborough is Assistant Curator for Public Programs, Visual Arts at Americas Society, where she has realized all public programs related to the organization’s exhibitions including, Alice Miceli: Projeto Chernobyl, Walls of Air: The Brazilian Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For, and Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant:Trembling Thinking. At the Americas Society she also creates public programs to contextualize, educate and promote Latin American Art. She is also responsible for the donors, the Arts of the Americas Circle and fundraising of special public programs of the Visual Arts Department. Ms. Scarborough’s previous experience includes four years at Phillips Auction House as Latin American Art Specialist in the Latin American and Contemporary Art Departments, and four years as Sales Associate at the Thomas Segal Gallery, Baltimore. She interned and volunteered in prestigious museum and art institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Independent Curators International, International Center of Photography, and The Smithsonian Institution. Ms. Scarborough holds an MA in Museum Studies from New York University and a BA in Comparative Literature from Oberlin College.

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Thank you to Julia Herzberg, Independent Curator and ArtTable NY Programs Committee Member, and Carolina Scarborough, Assistant Curator, America’s Society, for organizing this program.