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The San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Art in City Hall program, in partnership with PhotoAlliance, are proud to present Metaphors of Recent Times: A Dialogue of the Personal, the Political and the Cultural. The exhibition features twenty works from PhotoAlliance's INSIGHT/INCITE 20/20 portfolio from 2023, alongside work by twenty-four artists that respond to themes present in the portfolio. The exhibition features a wide range of incisive visual perspectives from artists of diverse identities and background, each responding to the issues of our times. 

Metaphors of Recent Times will be on display on the Ground Floor and North Light Court at City Hall through June 20, 2025.

A public reception to celebrate the opening of the exhibition will be held on the Ground Floor of City Hall on Thursday, January 16, 2025 from 5 - 7 p.m.

The exhibition's themes are rooted in PhotoAlliance's 20th Anniversary portfolio of limited edition prints by local, regional, and international photographers. Curated by PhotoAlliance founder and creative director Linda Connor, the set of twenty prints was conceived as a distillation of the creative responses artists have made to the upheaval seen in our political, cultural, environmental, and personal spheres in recent years. INSIGHT/INCITE captured images of hope, challenges, resilience, and humanity. 

Metaphors of Recent Times expands on the themes of INSIGHT/INCITE and includes new work that respond to the themes explored in the portfolio. A call for artists was held in the fall of 2024 and the jurors鈥�photographers Linda Connor, Lewis Watts, and exhibition curator Beth Davila Waldman鈥攕elected twenty-four artists from a pool of 128. The selected works can be emotional, cathartic, and thought-provoking, engaging in a rich dialogue with current environmental and socio-political issues effecting people today.