Manifest Gallery - Private Space International Call

The Cincinnati based non-profit arts organization and gallery, Manifest, invites visual artists and designers to submit original works of art about secrets, surveillance, solitude, and the tension between openness and over-exposure.

Can you keep a secret?

We are encouraged to share so much of ourselves now, beyond the normal work of cultivating levels of intimacy through communion with friends, family, workmates, and neighbors.

Artists are used to this, to a point. We make a work of art, which acts not only as a piece of self-expression, but necessarily as a meeting place for viewers to experience and be affected by what we made, by who they saw it with. The act of making art is highly personal, highly intimate, but its second life requires that it be shared, made public. That it be shown.

In this case, we control what we share and how much we abstract. And yet, beyond…