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on November 6, 2020 at 3:31:39 pm
W|ALLS: Defend, Divide, and the Divine
February 24 - July 25, 2021
Mint Museum Uptown at Levine Center for the Arts
Ami Vitale, Ripple Effect, 2009. Photographer @amivitale
Carol Guzy, People celebrating on the dismantled Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989.Carol Guzy/The Washington Post.
W|ALLS: Defend, Divide, and the Divine explores the various aspects of walls—artistic, social, political, and historical—and how they can be literal walls or barriers—fences and sand berms—to intangible dividers such as emotional barriers and institutionalized racism. The exhibition is divided into six sections: Delineation, Defense, Deterrent, The Divine, Decoration, and The Invisible. While the Divine surveys a wide-range of barriers that evoke or represent the spiritual or hallowed, the other five sections have a photo-essay focused on a specific wall to anchor the theme, in addition to other examples to offer a range of time-periods and geographical regions. The exhibition includes 67 artists with 132 images from around the globe spanning from 1897 to 2019. Originally exhibited at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles (Oct. 5 -Dec. 29, 2019), this exhibition has been curated by Jen Sudul Edwards, Ph.D., Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Mint Museum.
Saman has photographed elements of conflict around the globe spending most of his time in the Middle East.
This exhibition includes nine of Saman's photographs commissioned by the Annenberg Space for Photography documenting the Northern Ireland Peace Wall in Belfast.
Visit the artist's profile from Magnum Photos here.
See this article on Saman and his conflict photography.
Read this interview for National Geographic about Saman's work in Central America.
Tanya Aguiñiga
Aguiñiga is a craftsperson, artist, and designer who founded and is director of AMBOS (Art Making Between Opposite Sides). This project is ongoing and addresses identity, community, and interconnectedness among people along the US-Mexico border.
Eight of Aguiñiga's photographs from the AMBOS project appear in this exhibition.
More on Aguiñiga's sculpture, design, and her exhibition Craft & Care.
Aguiñiga is also featured in The Mint Museum's Collection and will be part of the upcoming exhibition Craft in the Laboratory: The Science of Making Things set to open at The Mint Museum Uptown in February of 2022.
Kai Wiedenhöfer
Inspired by witnessing the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Wiedenhöfer works primarily in the Middle East documenting walls of religion, conflict, and communication and how people are impacted by them.
In this exhibition, there are eight photographs by Wiedenhöfer depicting areas from Arizona to Palestine.
More about his inspiration and photography of walls in this article by Time Magazine.
SHAN Wallace
SHAN is a nomadic award-winning photographer and self-described freedom fighter who strives to create a visual archive of the social, political, and cultural narratives of black lives and the African diaspora.
This exhibition features eight photographs by SHAN documenting the 8-Mile Wall in Detrioit, which outlines the half-century of "redlining" in that city.
View this article from the Charlotte Observer about SHAN's work and time at The Roll Up CLT as an artist in residence.
Listen to the 10 Frames Per Second podcast episode on SHAN and how her work acts as activism.
Marina Abromovic
Abromovic is a Swedish born artist and is one of the pioneers of performance art. She uses her body as subject and medium in attempts to achieve spiritual and emotional transformation.
The 12 images featured in this exhibition are photographs taken from Abromovic's performance piece The Lovers in which she and her lover, Ulay (1943-2020) started on opposite sides of the Great Wall of China and walked until they met in the middle.
Read about The Lovers in this article from The Art Newspaper.
Included along with the images is a 26-minute documentary by award-winning director Jeremiah Zagar.
Interactive mural sites created in conjunction with the show by Candy Chang and James Reeves called Light the Barricades elicit internal reflection from the viewer about emotional barriers within themselves. One of these will travel to Charlotte to accompaney the exhibition at the Mint Museum.