07/07/2023
Opening tomorrow in Detroit!
At the Belt and Library Street Collective, curated by Allison Glenn: “Public Matter: New Forms,” with yours truly and (in order of accompanying images above) Jared Owens, Ronny Quevedo, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Carole Harris, and Lonnie Holley; organized in relation to what looks like an amazing exhibition of Gary Tyler’s work (link to Gary’s work in my bio).
My contribution:
“955 men and 55 women, Metropolitan Detention Center, Los Angeles, California”
Back story: The first public presentation of was in Mike Kelley’s “Mobile Homestead” when it was at LA MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary in 2014, in a temporary installation curated by , including the late great Kevin Michael Key, and others.
At the north end of the Homestead, a window looked straight onto what always looms over the museum and its neighbors for those who know to see it: the 16-story Metropolitan Detention Center, holding around 1,000 people as federal prisoners. In addition to hanging my photographs, I applied two strips of diffusion to the window to frame the view onto the facility, writing on the strips the number of people imprisoned there and name of the facility (the titling convention for “Degrees of Visibility”).
Allison and the curatorial team chose the documentation of this from among different possibilities I sent them, showing a window onto a window framing so many windows, in dialogue with Gary’s show and the others included here.
Opening and this Saturday, July 8, 7-9pm, on occasion of “Gary Tyler: We Are the Willing.” Thanks !
Installation photos by PD Rearick. Courtesy of Library Street Collective.
