This exhibition is a love letter to the common form, a type of recent abstraction related to the utopian movements of modernism. In the early twentieth century, modernists like Joaquín Torres García and Luis Barragán pursued geometries that were, supposedly, universal. Accessible and applicable to all, these forms would, quixotically, change the world and unite subjects. Today, this exhibition exchanges the idealism of the “universal” for the more profane “common,” constellating works of art that allow us the space to imagine new ways of being together. What does it mean to pursue a utopian trajectory, today? While aspiring to the universal, the modernist projects of the early twentieth century were often, contradictorily, bound up with the construction of nationalism. The common forms in this exhibition offer wholeness and a sense of optimism
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