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shepard fairey: backward forward and gabrielle goliath: chorus


Dallas Contemporary

shepard fairey: backward forward on view: 25 september –  23 july 2023

the power of shepard fairey's art is in the combination of the compelling narratives inherent in the pictures he creates and his ability to adapt to a continuously changing society. he has established a long-standing career as a master storyteller who uses images to help us navigate the complicated world we inhabit. backward forward is the artist’s first-ever solo museum exhibition in texas and highlights the evolution of fairey’s career from the confrontational d.i.y. style of defiant youth to a narrative of hope, equality, and shared humanity. 

shepard fairey: backward forward is curated by adjunct curator pedro alonzo. gabrielle goliath: chorus

chorus is on view: 25 september –  19 march 2023

chorus is housed in an immersive, elegiac audio-visual environment in which participants are encouraged to linger. two videos are projected onto large, free-standing blocks, which are positioned in relation to each other and occupy darkened space with funeral gravity – and for good reason. the conditions of hope that underscore the social encounters of her work ask for what she terms a life-work of mourning – or “to imagine and seek to realize the world otherwise is to bear with us those lost to or still surviving an order of violence we hope to and must transform.”

a note of care from the artist: this is a work of mourning. whilst you will not be confronted with scenes of violence, images of abjection or horror, you are nonetheless asked to presence yourself within a commemorative space, to participate within a sonic vigil, calling to remembrance black, brown, femme and queer lives, lost to the crisis of femicide in south africa.

gabrielle goliath: chorus is curated by assistant curator emily edwards.

about dallas contemporary 
dallas contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and international artists. modeled after european art centers and located in an industrial building in the design district, dallas contemporary is one of the only institutions of its kind in the united states, offering temporary exhibitions, important lectures and seminal learning programs. always different. always free. 

 

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