Be With Me Always, Take Any Form, Drive Me Mad

CCS Bard Galleries —December 6-14, 2018

Troy Brauntuch, Untitled (Statue), 2016; Marlo Pascual, Untitled, 2011; Paolo Mussat, Lo spirato [Fabro], 1968. Installation view of Be With Me Always, Take Any Form, Drive Me Mad, CCS Bard Galleries, 2018. Photo: Chris Kendall.

Troy Brauntuch, Untitled (Statue), 2016; Marlo Pascual, Untitled, 2011; Paolo Mussat, Lo spirato [Fabro], 1968. Installation view of Be With Me Always, Take Any Form, Drive Me Mad, CCS Bard Galleries, 2018. Photo: Chris Kendall.

Saul Fletcher, Untitled #234 Blue Room 2, 2011; Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (A Walk in the Snow), 1993; Troy Brauntuch, Untitled (Statue), 2016; Marlo Pascual, Untitled, 2011. Installation view of Be With Me Always, Take Any Form, Drive Me Mad,

Saul Fletcher, Untitled #234 Blue Room 2, 2011; Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (A Walk in the Snow), 1993; Troy Brauntuch, Untitled (Statue), 2016; Marlo Pascual, Untitled, 2011. Installation view of Be With Me Always, Take Any Form, Drive Me Mad, CCS Bard Galleries, 2018. Photo: Chris Kendall.

Ana Mendieta, Untitled (from the Silueta Series), 1976; Eileen Quinlan, The Raft, 2010. Installation view of Be With Me Always, Take Any Form, Drive Me Mad, CCS Bard Galleries, 2018. Photo: Chris Kendall.

Ana Mendieta, Untitled (from the Silueta Series), 1976; Eileen Quinlan, The Raft, 2010. Installation view of Be With Me Always, Take Any Form, Drive Me Mad, CCS Bard Galleries, 2018. Photo: Chris Kendall.

Ana Mendieta, Untitled (from the Silueta Series), 1976; Marlo Pascual, Untitled, 2011; Eileen Quinlan, The Raft, 2010; Laurel Nakadate, Exorcism in January, 2009; Installation view of Be With Me Always, Take Any Form, Drive Me Mad, CCS Bard Galleries

Ana Mendieta, Untitled (from the Silueta Series), 1976; Marlo Pascual, Untitled, 2011; Eileen Quinlan, The Raft, 2010; Laurel Nakadate, Exorcism in January, 2009; Installation view of Be With Me Always, Take Any Form, Drive Me Mad, CCS Bard Galleries, 2018. Photo: Chris Kendall.

Haunting (adj · noun · verb) can be defined as follows: to be persistently and disturbingly present in; the act of someone/something manifesting itself regularly; to be poignant and unforgettable; to be directly attached to that which one no longer knows. Be With Me Always, Take Any Form, Drive Me Mad brings together eight artists whose works are simultaneously haunting and haunted. The works deal with encountering that which inhabits the fleshy body, yet is unable to be grasped; each one carries with it a tangible weight—the weight of memory, opacity, power, stillness, lingering, and absence.

Curated by Ciena Leshley, Liz Lorenz, and Ana Lopes