SUBLIMATION was an artist-run project organized by Brooklyn based artist NATHAN STOREY and hosted by STELLAR PROJECTS in New York's Lower East Side from 2018 - 2019.
SUBLIMATION supported exploratory and cross-disciplinary works by underrepresented and queer artists in New York's Lower East Side. During the COVID-19 pandemic, SUBLIMATION advocated for emerging artists and raised emergency funds for Black Lives Matter.
In ancient alchemy, SUBLIMATION symbolized the exchange of “bodies” and “spirits” similar to laboratory phase transitions between solids and gases. Alchemists used language more evocative of the mystical implications of SUBLIMATION, manifesting the process’s dual nature in the spiritualization of the body and the corporeal formation of the spirit. SUBLIMATION fluctuates in and around the intersection of the chemical and the mystic.
