Thursday, October 17 - 12:00PM to 5:00PM
Anderson Gallery, 907 1/2 W Franklin St.
Fire on World, is an exhibition of found images by Carmen Winant.
From the artist:
Everything in this exhibition has had another life; the slide projectors came used (having likely whizzed round thousands of times already), the slides themselves were all found, purchased, recovered. I have authored none of it, nor been its first user.
These series of images do not unfold a single story. Rather, across five projectors and 400 discrete images, they weave together multiple narratives. Of protest, of birth, of women's legs, of the moon landing, of entire structures – little worlds – on fire. Together they perform a choreography that comes in and out of step with itself.
At times one series of images lines up neatly, and then falls away. Ultimately and when taken together, they add up to a larger picture of social unrest, dissent, looking closely and looking away. The Watts riots and abortion rights protests, among other events, depict in frozen time a world agitated – in deep despair and yet unwilling to discharge hope. To burn it all down is another way to begin.
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