MICA Exhibition: Under Cover

THIS YEAR, MICA’s Exhibition Development Seminar class examines the continuously shifting definition of shelter through the interdisciplinary group exhibition, Under Cover. The show, including works of sculpture, photography, and video, explores how private dwellings and public spaces have begun to merge—and how, as a result, concepts of and expectations for shelter, protection, and privacy have been irrevocably altered. Densely populated cities, surveillance of the public, and digital overexposure of personal information have contributed to dissolving the boundary between public and private space. As public domain continues to advance, perhaps the only shelter left is in the privacy of the mind.>p>Image: Wearable Portable Architecture, 2011, c. Mary Mattingly, Courtesy of deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park.