Former Workspace Resident Michael Bilsborough has created a new mural, Within Reach for the group show The Left Hand of Darkness at The Project in New York opening Thursday, June 26th, 2008.

The Left Hand of Darkness, a group exhibition curated by Sarvia Jasso and Yasmine Dubois, borrows its title from the first feminist science fiction novel written by Ursula K. Le Guin in 1969. Set in a universe where individuals alternate between genders depending on the lunar cycle, the novel proposes an alternative social model that challenges traditional sexual dimorphism. After being transported from a heteronormative society to this new planet, the narrator states, "[...] my efforts took the form of self-consciously seeing a Gathenian first as a man then as a woman, forcing him into those categories so irrelevant to his nature and so essential to my own." During this journey, he is immersed in a world that redefines gender and sexual identities as we know them. Using the novel as a point of departure, the exhibition looks at artists who are playing with the dynamics of gender representation within a contemporary context.

An opening reception will be held this Thursday, June 26th, from 6-8 at The Project, 37 W 57th Street, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10019.

The Left Hand of Darkness
June 26 – August 15, 2008
The Project
37 W. 57th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10019
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