Open Call "Deflate: failures, flops & silver linings"
Deflate: failures, flops & silver linings
We fall flat as easily as we land. In between, something emerges. Deflate turns toward the paradoxes of collapse and renewal as a creative practice.We invite you to submit photographs and/or time-based work that explores the fragility of effort and expectation. Silver linings hold a power of their own. What does it mean to fall short, and what reward might we find there? How does failure take form as a radical path forward? What beauty or strangeness arrives when things do not go as planned? How can art dismantle the logic of success? Deflate seeks lens-based work that lingers in the gap between expectation and reality — energy that is there and then isn’t, all too quickly. The anatomy of falling flat, the light of a silver lining, the cyclical process of making and unmaking.
***No entry fee, printing will be done in house at no cost to artists.
Eligibility: FAILURES ONLY !!! (No requirements related to age or experience.)
DEADLINE: NOV 21st, 11:59pm CST
*Exhibition is organized, curated, and produced by the MFA Photography cohort at the University of Arkansas School of Art. Exhibition planned for January 2026.
