Virtual Opening: Much Unseen is Also Here
Join the exhibition curators, friends, and DJ CQQCHIFRUIT for a virtual celebration of Much Unseen is Also Here: An-My Lê and Shahzia Sikander and other summer exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
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Since 2015, An-My Lê has used her camera to cast a critical eye on contemporary American politics in a capacious series of photographs titled Silent General. The series began with an invitation to document the making of the 2016 Hollywood film Free State of Jones, a fictionalized telling of the story of a Civil War…
Walk into the South Asian galleries at a museum, leaf through a survey book on Persian art, or Google “Hindu sculpture”—you will find artworks isolated against white gallery walls, images cropped from pages aged hundreds of years, sculptures extracted from temples and set against jet-black voids. For Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander, seeing centuries-old works of…
Founded in 1976 by Columbia College Chicago, the MoCP cultivates a deeper understanding of the artistic, cultural, and political roles of photography in our world today. Plan your visit Much Unseen is Also Here: An-My Lê and Shahzia Sikander June 3–August 29, 2021 In presenting Much Unseen is Also Here as part of Toward Common…