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Summary

This booklet accompanies a multimedia show on Sensitivity with artists Nina Ahmadi, Savannah Faith Jackson, Maia Liebeskind, Chloe Rees, Shori Sims, Liev Sibilla, Lucia Zezza, and curated by Bethelihem Gebresilasie. The show is put on view through Gallatin Galleries.

Sensitive is rooted in the French word ‘sensitif,’ meaning, “capable of receiving impressions from external objects, having the function of sensation.” When a person is sensitive, their perception equates to feeling. When a piece of art is sensitive, it visually or conceptually overwhelms the senses. Colors and themes can relay and spark a quality of sensitivity within the viewer, or encase themselves within the art pieces. The artists selected within this show created their works with the above definitions of sensitivity in mind. Drawing from the literary and theoretical works on sensitivity, from Goethe to Stendhal Syndrome, this exhibition seeks to tease out how sensitivity is catalyzed through and as a reaction to art.