Folded Group curated by Bill Nace and Kim Gordon

Amant announces the inauguration of a new exhibition space at the rear of Zoli restaurant on its campus in Brooklyn, NY. In conjunction with the Spring exhibition Count Your Chickens of acclaimed artist Kim Gordon at Amant, this new 1400 square foot exhibition space opens with an exhibition curated by Bill Nace and Kim Gordon, who together comprise the experimental electric guitar duo Body/Head. Folded Group presents a set of artistic practices that have shared moments on stage and in the studio. Bringing together works by nineteen artist-musicians based in Detroit, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York, and throughout Western Massachusetts, the exhibition highlights aesthetics of experimentation, immediacy, and the handmade. The works on view range from paintings and woven tapestries to drawings, lathe-cut records, and sculptural noise instruments. Folded Group privileges forms of attention that are tactile and deliberate, gathering artists whose practices often circulate through scenes rather than institutions, through listening as much as looking. To be folded into a practice, a community, or a set of shared enthusiasms is to enter what the dictionary defines as a fold: a group bound by common activity or belief. Folding also points to printed matter, where information is literally carried in a crease: what is folded is not available at a glance, but must be opened, handled, and attended to. In this sense, the exhibition intimates that artistic bonds can be quiet, partial, and still consequential, revealing itself as an arrangement of creases where music and visual art meet, overlap, and inform one another. The exhibition presents several new works created by the participating artists for Folded Group. They reflect lived histories and affinities connecting them to Kim Gordon and Bill Nace, and articulate positions that value scene knowledge, friendship, and the impulse to unite.