Ancient History of the Distant Future
A collaboration between Joseph del Pesco, International Director of KADIST and PAFA鈥檚 Curator of Contemporary Art, Jodi Throckmorton, Ancient History of the Distant Future will take place in PAFA鈥檚 Historic Landmark Building. Contemporary artworks will be interspersed with PAFA鈥檚 historic collection and will point back鈥攃ritically, quotationally, or inspirationally鈥攖o historical artworks, particularly those that find new relevance in the present or play temporal tricks. The artists in this exhibition consider the possibility of art to speak to history at-large, as a strange and evolving field of thought, not just art history. History can act as an allegory, addressing (directly or abstractly, depending on the work) larger social or political forces, and the very notion that history itself, however seemingly an assembly of concrete fragments, is subject to a bizarre confluence of forces, full of contradictions and fiction.
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A collaboration between Joseph del Pesco, International Director of KADIST and PAFA鈥檚 Curator of Contemporary Art, Jodi Throckmorton, Ancient History of the Distant Future will take place in PAFA鈥檚 Historic Landmark Building. Contemporary artworks will be interspersed with PAFA鈥檚 historic collection and will point back鈥攃ritically, quotationally, or inspirationally鈥攖o historical artworks, particularly those that find new relevance in the present or play temporal tricks. The artists in this exhibition consider the possibility of art to speak to history at-large, as a strange and evolving field of thought, not just art history. History can act as an allegory, addressing (directly or abstractly, depending on the work) larger social or political forces, and the very notion that history itself, however seemingly an assembly of concrete fragments, is subject to a bizarre confluence of forces, full of contradictions and fiction.
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