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PictureMahdia Danishyar, 16 DOSTI Club Leader, Student Activist

THE NEW WOMAN
Elena Gallina

I am a new woman.

I seek, I strive each day to be that truly new woman I want to be.           

In truth, that eternally new being is the sun. 

I am the sun ... 

The new woman today seeks neither beauty nor virtue.           

She is simply crying out for strength, the strength to create this
still unknown kingdom ...
 
Hiratsuka Raicho (1911)



EXHIBITION  Postponed

Amidst one of the worst summers for civilian casualties in Afghanistan’s history (2019), Elena Gallina flew to Kabul to photograph and interview dozens of women about the role beauty plays in their lives: is it a strength or weakness, a source of power or a means of exploitation?

‘’I chose to photograph and speak to Afghan women because they, far too often in the last two decades, have been tokenized, victimized, and painted in only one light by the international community. Yes, they are on the frontlines. But they are neither victims nor heroes, they are simply women like all the rest, crying out to create a new kingdom.’’ – Gallina
 
The exhibition, unstaged portraits and ponderings, invites viewers to suspend prior conceptions of “women in war zones” and enter into a complicated, universally applicable, conversation about the dualities of beauty.
 
Elena has been researching violence against women for many years. Having grown up in Kosovo in the aftermath of the genocide and worked in refugee camps across the Middle East since she was 17, her understanding of the complications of beauty and exploitation are deeply personal. Motivated by her own experience and those who have inspired her, her photography captures the double standards put upon women and elevates the nuances of their experience. She is currently a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.



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Fourth Annual 
Holding What Can’t Be Held

OPENING EVENT September 14th, 7pm
EXHIBITION RUNS September 14th – November 10th, 2019

In 2018, a group artists toured the radioactive ‘clean-up’ sites at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) along with the nuclear watchdog group, the Snake River Alliance. Since 1989 when the site was added to the Superfund list of the country's most polluted places 'clean up' efforts at the site have  costed taxpayers over 9 billion dollars and could continue until the year 2050. Among other things, the artists watched the exhumation of plutonium contaminated waste that was buried in unlined pits directly above the Snake River Aquifer, sole source of drinking water for 300,000 Idahoans. The experience was unforgettable and yet profoundly difficult to put into words. Now, after a year of processing, the artists are presenting their work: a continuing chronicle of the nuclear age and its impossible conundrums.

This year’s works cover a broad range of disciplines from photography to painting to performance art to installation to video. The artists met up during the year to process their experiences communally, but the works reflect the varying backgrounds and concerns of the artists. Berlin based artist Irina Novarese poured through archival material to create a video essay that focuses on the expectations present when for about an hour the town of Arco ID became the first community to be lit by nuclear energy. Eli Craven used found photographs from the Idaho Public Television archives to create a series of image-based objects that explore the INL's restrictive photography and media policies while also eliciting a desire to see into what is hidden. Artists Jonathan Sadler and Luke Batten of New Catalogue used photography to explore the race track at Atomic City - a focal point for that community nearest to the radioactive clean up sites at the INL.

This year’s artists are: Irina Novarese, Eli Craven, Kristen Cooper, Uli Westphal, Jonathan Sadler & Luke Batten (new catalogue), Astri Snodgrass, Bryan Moore, Candace Rood, Alek De Dochas  and Tim Andreae


Previous Exhibitions

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Software Garden
Rory Pilgrim
June 29 - August 24, 2019

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IDAHO I Do Love!
ERIK WESSELO

May 9-24, 2019




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LAY OF THE LAND
Laurie Blakeslee, Jan Boles, John Francis, John Shinn,
Carrie Quinney, New Catalogue (Jonathan Sadler & Luke Batten)
February 15 - March 24, 2019





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Acts of Painting 
 
William D. Lewis
November 2, 2018 - January 5, 2019




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Holding What Can't Be Held
August 9 – September 29, 2018


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REVERSE-REBIRTH

Han Seok Hyun
Est. July 28, 2018
On permanent view at Idaho Botanical Garden

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THROUGH THE WORMHOLE

Jose ''Prime'' Reza
June 21-July 20, 2018


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Woodsmoke

Troy Passey  / J. Reuben Appelman
April 5 - 28, 2018


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ONE SHOT
Irina Novarese
November  11 - January 20, 2018



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Alternative Facts
Bryan Anthony Moore

July 14th - 22nd, 2017




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Incessant Journey
Louise Levergneux
March 2 - April 8, 2017


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HOLDING WHAT CAN'T BE HELD

Daniel Peltz, Kelly Cox, Chad Erpelding, Amy O’Brien, Eric Mullis,
Sissi Westerberg, John Shinn, Tim Andreae

December 17 - February 4, 2017


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CONTRAPPUNTO

Giuseppe Licari
October 14 - December 3, 2016



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Not Somewhere Else, But Here
Wytske van Keulen

with Joost Conijn, Lucas Lenglet,
Thomas Manneke and
Tim Smith (Harp)
May 20-July 9, 2016


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People Walking in Search of Sunrise
Huichol Art by José Benítez Sánchez
March 10 - April 15, 2016


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Museum of Broken Relationships

​February 4 - March 3, 2016

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New Light
John Shinn
November 14 – January 9, 2016

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COLOR STORY

KATHRIN NIEMANN / KRISTEN COOPER
September 3 - October 24, 2015



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BOISELAND
Judas Arrieta
 July 24 - August 22, 2015



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Holding
What Can't Be Held

Group Exhibition
July 2 - July 18, 2015



Laura Ahola-Young, Jonathan Saddler, Catherine Reinhardt, April VanDeGrift, Thea Belecz, Elijah Jensen, John McMahon, Alissa Salimore, Tim Norton, Tim Andreae and Jeri Ann Sabin


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Traces
Marijn van Kreij
April 25 - June 27, 2015

MING Studios Art Gallery Residency Exhibition Boise Idaho USA







A Man of Letters
Noel B. Weber
February 5 - March 28, 2015


MING Studios Art Gallery Residency Exhibition Boise Idaho USA Axel Void






Mediocre: Rocio & Sofia
AXEL VOID

November 21 – December 21, 2014


MING Studios Art Gallery Residency Exhibition Boise Idaho USA MING Studios Art Gallery Residency Exhibition Boise Idaho USA Uli Westphal






Cornucopia

Uli Westphal
May 30 – August 30, 2014



 



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