How a curator and a group of artists came together in the face of institutional silencing. | ✍️ booksnotboys
“Imaginary Coordinates” was curated by Rhoda Rosen, who was the Spertus Museum’s director at the time—a position that no longer exists. It was only the second exhibition to be staged in Spertus’s gleaming new building, at 610 South Michigan. For Rosen, the glass-and-steel building, located near other cultural institutions, signified an openness to the greater public. “My charge, as I understood it, was to speak to all people and the way in which we are connected to one another,” Rosen says.
The canceled exhibition garnered quite a bit of attention at the time. Lichtzier was aware of the incident before she joined the organization, though she hoped that things may have changed in the intervening years. Lichtzier originally ran the fellowship program with Ionit Behar, who was then curator of collections and exhibitions at Spertus. But in September 2018, a few months into the second fellowship, Behar had her own experience with censorship.
The fellows were encouraged to explore the Spertus’s vast collection in order to find materials to inspire their own projects. Even chose a photograph by artist Jazon Lazarus,, where you could pay a fee and someone would spray-paint a message of your choice on the Palestinian side of the Separation Wall in East Jerusalem. Lazarus’s message read, “Trying to imagine a clear view between Palestine and Israel.
According to Even and Lichtzier, there was scant opportunity for conversation about the work, or how it might be presented in a way that added additional context. Bell’s characterization of the work struck Even as particularly off-base, as context and an opportunity for dialogue was exactly what she’d hoped her work would offer.
Rosen sees Spertus’s decision as a direct result of the controversy around “Imaginary Coordinates.” “It’s not just that they’re related, right? You can’t look at Ruslana’s show without seeing the deep wounds that had been caused by my exhibition,” she says.
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