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Curated by Petra Collins, Comforter is a group show featuring artists Carlotta Kohl, T.V. Oates, Claire Milbrath, Nguan, and Petra Collins. Comforter looks at the binaries of home/transience and sanctuary/chaos, and how we experience these dualities in contemporary life.
"Winter really gets me sad and depressed—it’s so cold and dark and most of my time is spent inside—so all I've been thinking about is the space I inhabit and its impermanence. When will I move, what stuff will I take with me, how can I make myself comfortable where I am? Living in New York trains you to treat everything as transient, especially where you live. I grew up in a suburb and then moved to the city and in both spaces I have had this despondent feeling that out of the tranquil sanctuary called home would come chaos; that at any minute things could just change—and things did change and will continue to do so." -Petra Collins, 2015
Petra Collins is an artist/curator living in NYC. She is the founder and curator of The Ardorous, an online art collective showcasing work by emerging female artists. Shooting from the age of 15, her images are fueled with self discovery and femininity that explore the complex intersection of life as a young woman online and off. Collins’s images offer an unflinching honesty, exploring the privacies and publicities of growing up as a woman at a moment when female bodies are ubiquitously hyper-mediated by Photoshop and social media. Collins has curated a handful of shows: Gynolandscape & Pussy Pat in NYC, Strange Magic in L.A, and Literally Bye in Miami for Art Basel. She has also given lectures at educational and art institutions such as York University and The Art Gallery of Ontario. Her work can be seen in publications such as I.D., Dazed & Confused, Vice, Purple, Interview, Garage, and more. Currently, she is wrapping up a short film series about teen dancers called Making Space, and has a curated book published by Random House out June 2015.