In image processing, “edge detection” is the algorithmic process through which stark contrasts within an image are located, delineating structural forms, boundaries, and points of transition. In this exhibition, however, the term is repurposed as a potent metaphor — a conceptual apparatus to reveal those subtle yet acute energies inhabiting the margins of the social body, perceptual experience, and visual culture. 
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“EdgeDetection” gathers together the practices of female artists from Rita McBride’s class, whose work continuously probes the boundaries of perception, bodily politics, linguistic fissures, and spatial sensibilities. Rather than operating from any presumed center, these practices cultivate tension from positions of peripherality, generating new modalities of seeing within blurred and ambiguous territories. Traversing scales — from microscopic neural and cellular sensations to macroscopic ruptures within institutional histories, social frameworks, and structures of power — these works illuminate terrains of female experience that remain suppressed, unarticulated, or altogether unrecognized. 
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At its heart, the exhibition poses an urgent question: within the increasingly intricate architectures of contemporary imagery and meaning-making, how might we freshly identify, delineate, and even generate novel edges? Can the artistic production of these female practitioners itself be understood as a sophisticated form of edge detection — an aesthetic intervention that is simultaneously acute, delicate, and provocatively disruptive?