CONVERSATIONS WITH THE VOID
BFA EXHIBITION

Texas State Galleries at TXST University, San Marcos, TX

2020

Conversations with the Void highlights the depth and range of creative practice among students graduating in fall semester of 2020. You can find their work displayed online or at Texas State Galleries, where every exhibiting student has selected one piece from their thesis body of work to be shown. Individually, these works are the culmination of each student’s unique journey. As a whole, the exhibition Conversations with the Void speaks to the optimism and resilience of the students' arts practices but still anxious states of being.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has meant sending our words and our work out into virtual spaces—we can only hope that those ideas and wishes land somewhere, with someone, in the void. This situation has both conceptual and practical consequences for a BFA Thesis Exhibition in 2020. Students cannot gather in-person to celebrate their accomplishment; some will feel comfortable visiting the exhibition, while others will not. Instead of viewing these circumstances as a limitation, this BFA Thesis Exhibition has embraced the uncanniness of this void, as well as technology as both the reason for and solution to feeling betwixt and between.  

From November 30 through December 11, you can join the Conversation on Zoom 24-hours a day. While the Galleries are open, visitors can see the exhibition through stationary camera eyes. One can use the Zoom to visit with others joining from inside of the Galleries or from elsewhere.  

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