To Conjure. New Archives in Recent Photography
Curated by Sara Ickow, Associate Director of Exhibitions, Keisha Scarville Guest Curator, and Elisabeth Sherman, Senior Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at ICP, To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography brings together the work of seven artists primarily working in photography鈥�Widline Cadet, Koyoltzintli, Tarrah Krajnak, Shala Miller, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Keisha Scarville, and Sasha Wortzel. The exhibition reimagines what an archive can be or might look like鈥攎ore than just a means of recuperating the past, these artists utilize the archive as a form for imagining new futures.
Moving away from the centrality of the institutional archive, the artists in To Conjure expand its parameters by engaging with materials鈥攃lothing, instruments, the landscape and more鈥攂eyond photographs and documents alone. By working with a myriad of contemporary materials, these artists create new histories and material sensibilities.
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Curated by Sara Ickow, Associate Director of Exhibitions, Keisha Scarville Guest Curator, and Elisabeth Sherman, Senior Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at ICP, To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography brings together the work of seven artists primarily working in photography鈥�Widline Cadet, Koyoltzintli, Tarrah Krajnak, Shala Miller, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Keisha Scarville, and Sasha Wortzel. The exhibition reimagines what an archive can be or might look like鈥攎ore than just a means of recuperating the past, these artists utilize the archive as a form for imagining new futures.
Moving away from the centrality of the institutional archive, the artists in To Conjure expand its parameters by engaging with materials鈥攃lothing, instruments, the landscape and more鈥攂eyond photographs and documents alone. By working with a myriad of contemporary materials, these artists create new histories and material sensibilities.
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