NARANJO 141 is pleased to present Objects of Desire, a group exhibition bringing together eleven woman artists, Eileen Feng, Danielle De Jesus, Rachel Marisa LaBine, Taylor Lee, Sofia Lucarelli, Lizzy Lunday, Zahra Mansoor, Lea Mugnaini, Diana Sinclair, Georgina Stone, and Caroline Zhang, drawing on the themes of identity and desire.

 In a consumerist society that seeks to monetize our deepest impulses, the word desire can bring to mind only the illusory. Everyday, we scroll through images edited to exploit our insecurities, browse store shelves stocked with products that play on our fetishes, and pass by or project a patriarchal gaze that regards human beings as possessions. But desire can also be a form of yearning, an intuition for what is possible that can sustain us in the face of uncertainty and alienation. Often, the things that attract us most can’t be pointed to, touched, or referred to by name— sometimes, a gesture of kinship between solitary souls, an act of joyful defiance in the face of discrimination, or a fleeting glimpse of the natural world under light can etch itself on our memory as tangibly as any physical thing. Objects of Desire presents eleven woman artists whose work contends with desire in all its contradictions and complexity, teasing out a portrait of longing drawn from a breadth of countries and continents. On canvas, currency, and cloth, in copper, cyanotype, and in the round, the works in Objects of Desire find a visual language that captures the paralysis, poignancy, and personhood that can emerge from the things that captivate us most.

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