Minor Feelings, co-curated with Harry Choi, takes its point of departure from the affective registers that often escape institutional framing: ambivalence, restraint, discomfort, and quiet contradiction. Rather than centering spectacle or legibility, the exhibition examines how artists work through emotional states shaped by displacement, racialization, intimacy, and everyday negotiation. These are not marginal concerns but structural ones, revealing how feeling itself becomes a site where power, history, and selfhood are continuously recalibrated.

The exhibition brings together artists whose practices attend to nuance over resolution. Across media, the works resist declarative readings, favoring tonal shifts, partial narratives, and moments of pause. Minor feelings are treated not as diminutive emotions, but as complex modes of perception that register what dominant cultural languages often overlook or suppress. In this sense, the exhibition proposes affect as an analytical tool, one that allows for the articulation of experience without demanding coherence, closure, or visibility on prescribed terms.

Presented at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Minor Feelings reflects a curatorial commitment to slowing down interpretation and expanding how museums engage emotional knowledge. Co-curated with Harry Choi, the project emphasizes dialogue, attunement, and shared inquiry over fixed thematic conclusions. It asks how institutions might hold space for forms of expression that are provisional, unresolved, and deeply felt, and how such practices can reorient our understanding of contemporary art and its social resonances.

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