The following description comes from the event organizer.

The Center for Contemporary Art and Culture and the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at PNCA are pleased to present l’appel du vide, a group exhibition of new and recent works by First Year MFA Graduate Candidates and Post-Bacc Programs students.

Exhibition Statement: Walking along a high cliff path, you are gripped by a terrifying urge to leap. As an express train hurtles into view, you itch to fling yourself in front of it. People talk of a fear of heights, but in truth anxieties about precipices are often less to do with falling than with the horrifying compulsion to jump. The French have a name for this unnerving impulse: l’appel du vide, “the call of the void.” As Jean-Paul Sartre recognized, l’appel du vide creates the shaky sensation that even our own instincts are not always to be trusted.