Institute of Contemporary Art
Greg Ito: Looking Back to Let Go
This is probably the most personal show I’ve made. I want people to know that the work is connected to these real experiences, so there’s pretty intimate stuff that’s only been seen within our family circle .… I had to ask my mom if it was okay to share these photographs. Since we weren’t able to get permission from relatives who have passed to share these things, all the faces are going to be covered with small white stickers. That way we can keep our family identities private and off the internet. These stickers also create a pathway for viewers to insert themselves into [my family’s] experience.
Deborah Anzinger: An Unlikely Birth
In an epigraph to her book Zong!—a meditation on the 1781 massacre of an estimated 150 slaves in the Middle...
Cauleen Smith: Give It or Leave It
In a political landscape where truth can feel fluid at best and arbitrary at worst, it seems apt that archival...