A Speculative Impulse: Trangressing the Archive
A Speculative Impulse: Trangressing the Archive
This exhibition examines the work of three contemporary artists who use speculative strategies to defy and transcend the logics of archives.
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Wallach Art Gallery
March 25, 2023 to April 09, 2023
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Exhibition Details

The exhibition traces the ways in which three artists engage with diverse archival materials—ritual objects, ethnographic photographs, and colonial maps—to explore how archaeology, cartography and ethnography are implicated in structures of colonial violence. Including works in a variety of media, this show presents a multiplicity of approaches where speculation is mobilized to rewrite occluded histories and narratives.

Artist Details

A Speculative Impluse features the work of three contemporary artists, Firelei Báez, Gala Porras-Kim, and Stephanie Syjuco, who use speculative strategies to defy and transcend the logics of archives.

Location

Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 West 129th Street
New York, NY 10027

Image: Firelei Báez, “Untitled (New Chart of the Windward Passages),” 2020 / courtesy of Wallach Art Gallery