MEMBERS’ VIRTUAL TOUR - ONLINE PROGRAM THROUGH ZOOM

(Un)Making Monuments

Ksenia Nouril, PhD, Jensen Bryan Curator, The Print Center

In this talk, Dr. Nouril will “walk-through” The Print Center’s virtual (fully online) exhibition (Un)Making Monuments, which explores how history is marked and mediated through photographic representations of power in public spaces. It features the work of twelve modern and contemporary artists: Margaret Bourke-White, Oliver Curtis, Nona Faustine, Lee Friedlander, An-My Lê, Michael Mergen, Joiri Minaya, Mike Osborne, Kaitlin Pomerantz, Matthew Shain, William Earle Williams and Marisa Williamson.

While debates over the fate of monuments are perennial, recent events have refocused our attention once again on monuments. Across the United States, these sites of civic discourse have become sites of reckoning. Whether large or small, cut from stone or cast from metal, monuments are only as stable as the consensus that originally built them. A variety of monumental subjects are considered by the artists in this exhibition – from Christopher Columbus to Robert E. Lee as well as Mount Rushmore and the White House. This exhibition defines “monument” using the broadest sense of the word.

All of the artists in (Un)Making Monuments revisit a variety of American monuments through photography, a medium that records and preserves. Capable of producing an archival document that bears witness to history, photography gives us the visual tools to interpret history. Together, the photographs in this exhibition help us reassess and reimagine the landscape of the nation.

The virtual exhibition is currently on view through December 30, you will find the exhibition here: http://printcenter.org/unmakingmonuments/  The Print Center’s website is: http://printcenter.org

Members-only program, no fee