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WALLS: Defend, Divide, and the Divine

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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 more than 60 artists with over 130 images from around the globe spanning from 1897 to 2020. 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. 

 

All Artists

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Featured Artists

 

Moises Saman 

 

 

 

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.
  • Visit the artist's website here

  • Watch her extended segment of "Borderlands" from Art in the 21st Century Season 10. 

  • Read the article "Tanya Aguiñiga’s Art Tells the Story of Communities Along the US/Mexican Border" from Creative Capital. 

  • 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.

  • Visit the artist's website here.
  • Read about his Project "Wall on Wall" here
  • 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.
  • See the artist's profile here.

  • 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. 
  • An interview with The Guardian entitled "Marina Abromovic: 'I am not interested in small questions'" where she speaks on her practices, her life, and her work. 
  • See a biography of the artist here.

 

 

  • 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.

 

 

Selected Sites

   

  • 8-Mile Wall, Detroit
  • Berlin Wall
  • Essaouria, Morocco    
  • Great Wall of China
  • Havana, Cuba, Wrinkles of the City
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  • Itchan Kala, Uzbekistan
  • Kenya-Somalia Wall
  • Peace Wall, Belfast
  • Ramallah, West Bank,
    • Balloon Debate, Banksy
  • San Larazo Wall, Havana, Cuba 
  • Sherpa Mani Wall, Everest
  • Sungbo's Eredo
  • US/Mexico Border Wall
  • Walls of Benin
  • Western Wall, Jerusalem

 

 

 

  •     Lee Quinones, Howard the Duck mural
  •     Mohamed Mahmoud Street, Cairo, Egypt
  •           mural by Ammo Abo Bakr
  •     Healing Begins Through Connection mural, Swoon and Kensington Heights Community, Philadelphia, PAal,
  •     EU Mural, Banksy, Dover, England

 

 

 

   

 

Articles and Reviews

"As Walls Go Up at Unprecedented Rates, Artists Use Them as Subversive Canvases" from Hyperallergic

- "New Photo Exhibit At The Annenberg Space for Photography Explores A Sensitive Topic: Walls" from LAist

"A New Photography Exhibition Explores the Cultural Symbolism and Human Reality of Walls" from LA Weekly

"Photographers Take on the World’s Walls, Borders, and Barriers" from Atlas Obscura

 

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Created by Mattie Hough, Intern for The Mint Museum Library, Spring 2020