Can I Sit Next To You?

Dimensions Variable in Miami presents a collaborative exhibition: “Can I Sit Next To You?“.

Following several months of strictly virtual communications, the artists’ final collaborative action is the installation of their individual and group work at Dimensions Variable, where select works are paired together. In so doing, each artist has a work that ‘sits’ next to every other artist in the show—a gesture that is both collaborative and generative and asks where one artist’s work ends and the next begins. These pairings intentionally remove the physical distance—and emphasize the closeness—that has existed between these artists for the last several months.

How do we form new and meaningful connections through exclusively virtual means during a global pandemic? How do we collaborate and genuinely create with one another across the new virtual landscape? What is the creative nature of distance?  The artists  Nicole Doran, Jacin Giordano, Coe Lapossy, Loretta Park and Brandon Opalka try to answer these questions.