Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation, an exhibition at theamoncarter in Fort Worth featuring seven Black contemporary artists coincides with the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. KimERichard
“These artists do mostly three-dimensional work, the majority of them, and that was pretty exciting. We wanted artists that could produce objects that would give people a different sense of that history in the work because we start with a sculpture,” Poole said.
The installations ranging in sculpture, photography and paper and textile fabrications explore how the legacy of the Civil War manifests itself in the 21The Fort Worth museum provided Hugh Hayden with a high-resolution three-dimensional scan of“Most of the works reference that historical moment but also try to speak to the challenges that African Americans are having in society today and show those issues with inequity that have its origins in this historic period in American history and the...
“You see the same exact figure down to the width of a human hair, but the fact that he’s in 21st-century clothing, including flip flops, really changes the expression on his face, but it’s the same exact face that’s on the figure in the historical sculpture,” Adler said. “It’s kind of shocking that just the context changes the emotional valence of that work.”Maya Freelon was interested in who ownedbefore the Carter acquired it as she created her colorful tissue-paper installation.
Co-organized by the Carter and the Williams College Museum of Art in Massachusetts, the exhibition was developed during the pandemic. Although the artists did not meet each other before the exhibition opened and the curators were unable to conduct in-studio visits, the exhibition has a distinctive synergy.“Somehow, the show is cohesive,” Poole said.“The differences among them show there is no unified Black experience to show.
“If the project were finished, then there would be no relationship between the contemporary artworks and the historical, but the fact that there is that connection and similarity of experience is very telling about the course that society has taken in 160 years,” Adler said.will travel to Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University and Williams College Museum of Art.
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