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When curatorial partners have conflicting artistic sensibilities

My friend and I are curating this group show together and we thought our different tastes would create interesting dialogue, but instead every artist selection feels like a small war between our aesthetics, and I'm worried we're creating something incoherent.

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Aesthetic differences that seem complementary in theory can become irreconcilable in the specific decisions of creative practice.

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