“Well, Well, Well” is a group exhibition examining the contradictions surrounding health, wellness and the systems designed to sustain us. Inspired by the 2015 issue of Harvard Design Magazine, the exhibition brings together artists to consider the body as something adaptive and deeply entangled within social, political and economic structures.

While anatomical diagrams and wellness culture often present the body as orderly and optimized, lived experiences carry a far more complex reality. Bodies leak, fail, recover and persist within systems that both support and constrain them. Taking its title from a phrase that signals surprise, irony or suspicion, “Well, Well, Well” positions wellness as an unstable terrain shaped by things like power, infrastructure and perception.

The exhibition will be developed through an open call model, inviting artists to respond to both the conceptual framework and the spatial conditions of the Cedar Union’s Boedeker building. This exhibition will be mounted in the “pink room,” whose flesh-like tiles and textured ceilings resonate with the exhibition’s focus on the body and its constructed environments.

Selected works will be chosen based on conceptual alignment and their capacity to generate conversation within the space.

Applications are open now through August 15.