When: October 15, 2021 through January 5, 2022
Where: The Center Gallery (135 Columbus Ave, New York, NY 10019)
The Center for Latter-day Saint Arts issued a call for proposals, titled Art for Uncertain Times, in April, 2020, which was born of our desire to belong to our community in a moment of global distress. This exhibition draws from that project. The inclination to create offered tethers of hope and humanity as we clung to Georges Braque's notion that “Art is a wound turned to light.” We asked artists, scholars, and others for said illumination: How were they to process this new normal?
In May, 2020, fifty winners from hundreds of proposals were selected for the project. Entries came from all over the world and in multiple disciplines--from a Latino poet configuring eight poems to serve as a liturgical menorah symbol; to a Brooklyn street photographer juxtaposing the preternatural quiet of a city in lockdown against the growing embers of social disquiet. The marks of light and dark can be read throughout Siloed: Art for Uncertain Times. The seen and unseen. The known and unknown.