Winners of the International Open Call

apexart’s 2022–23 International Open Call received 336 proposals that were juried by nearly 800 people in 45 countries to determine apexart’s upcoming exhibition season. 

76 countries
The 2022–23 International Open Call received 336 written submissions from 76 countries.

20,145 votes
Nearly 800 jurors from 45 countries logged more than 20,000 votes to select the winners. Each proposal received approximately 85 votes.

Four winners
The winning proposals below were selected by the jurors to become apexart International Open Call Exhibitions.

The Corrections
Submitted by Sam Fein
Canton, MA, United States
Work created by survivors-turned-activists reveal inside the “Troubled Teen Industry,” a multi-billion dollar industry designed to modify the socially-undesirable behavior of adolescent girls.

Memory Card: The Perk of Being Able to Remember
Submitted by Sol Kim
Paris, France
Considers the act of subjective human recollection as a sacred activity, in a time when technology’s “memory” threatens to make our own remembering obsolete. 

Sem Sombras/Unshadowed
Submitted by Onyịnye Alheri and Carolina Policarpo
Maputo, Mozambique
Addresses the ways that queer and trans Mozambicans and other Africans are undoing enforced social norms and demanding rights, pleasure, and freedom.

I saw the future, it’s so wonderful, there are Puerto Ricans (Vi el futuro, es maravilloso, hay puertorriqueñxs)
Submitted by Mariana Ramos Ortiz
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Counters narratives that suggest Puerto Ricans are the root of the archipelago’s problem by presenting works that consider new strategies for colonial subjects to reclaim agency over their past, present and future.

Visit apexart online to read the original proposals, and find out more about how to submit for the upcoming NYC Open Call, in October 2022 and the International Open Call accepting submissions in February 2023.

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