Lydia Nobles
Choice is Individual
curated by Jacob Rhodes and Kris Racaniello
OPENING: Thursday, Dec. 9 2021, 6-9pm
Exhibition: Dec. 9 2021 - Jan. 8 2022
Residency: Dec 5 - Jan 22
Opening Thursday December 9 at Field Projects in an exhibition preview, Lydia Nobles presents 5 of 26 sculptures from her project As I Sit Waiting, an art show about abortion curated by Kris Racaniello and Jacob Rhodes.
This exhibition highlights the direct, positive effects of abortion as a transformative service. Drawing on interviews with individuals who have personally experienced the abortion process, Lydia Nobles creates “waiting room” sculptures and installations that embody every interviewee’s true, personal experience with abortion.
Clinical waiting rooms dominated Nobles’ abortion landscape. Now, as access to this critical, often life-saving service is at great risk due to conservative Supreme Court justices, Field Projects has partnered with Lydia Nobles to promote awareness of abortion as a basic human right. The positive effects of this life-changing healthcare service are explored in As I Sit Waiting, on view through January 8th. Lydia will conduct further interviews and complete additional chairs during her time at Field Residency (Dec 5-Jan 22), ultimately resulting in 26 completed sculptures to be featured in an upcoming satellite exhibition this spring.
Despite the needlessly charged, politicized nature of abortion as a subject in the United States, these waiting rooms and clinics are often banal, boring, everyday spaces. The waiting room integrates abortion into regular healthcare, normalizing the practice and countering conservative narratives. Fully immersive, the exhibition will transport you straight to the waiting room of an American abortion clinic. Every sculpture honors the true story of someone who has had an abortion. Bring your personal listening device (airpods, headset) to connect and experience the interviews through QR links yourself.
As I Sit Waiting is a fiscally sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts. The final exhibition will debut with Field Projects in Spring of 2022.
For updates on the project follow:
@lydianobles
@asisitwaiting
Lydia Nobles (b.1993) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been shown at The Real House (2021), LoBo Gallery (online, 2020), Trestle Gallery (Brooklyn, 2020), Toni B. Stewart Gallery (Wilmington, 2015), Practice Gallery (Philadelphia, 2020) and Westbeth Gallery (New York, 2017), among others. Her work is featured in the Flat File programs of Peep Space (2020) and Deanna Evans Projects (2021). Awarded for her achievements and dedication to gender studies, she received the Gender and Sexuality Grant (2017). She recently completed the artist-in-residence program at Trestle Art Space (Brooklyn, 2020) and just concluded her artist-in-residence at Pink Noise Projects (Philadelphia) in 2021.
