OXY ARTS presents Invisibility: Powers & Perils, curated by Yael Lipschutz, in collaboration with Getty's PST ART: Art & Science Collide
While the condition of invisibility—and its counterpart, hyper-visibility—has long played an important role in science, literature and the arts, it has more recently become the locus of some of the most pressing struggles of our time: issues of humanitarian and environmental justice. Marginalized, vulnerable populations—women, religious minorities, the unhoused, BIPOC communities—have long borne the effects of both invisibility and hyper-visibility—and increasingly so in the digital age. Such groups have been rendered invisible in countless respects vis a vis the dominant culture while at the same time being made hyper-visible in other respects, through racial profiling, surveillance and house-lessness.