Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Finley, Cheryl
2. Willis, Deborah, 1948-
3. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Cincinnati, Ohio), host institution
4. FotoFocus (Organization)

Description

1. 144 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 21 x 21 cm

Summary

1. Free as they want to be: Artists Committed to Memory' is the companion publication to the FotoFocus biennial exhibition that is scheduled for Fall 2022. This project considers the historic and contemporary role that photography and film have played in remembering legacies of slavery and its aftermath while examining the social lives of Black Americans within various places including the land, at home, in photographic albums, at historic sites, and in public memory. This exhibition acknowledges artists' constant involvement with efforts to explore the possibilities of freedom and their relationship to it. Their quest to be 'as free as they want to be' is envisioned in the subject matter they explore as well as in their persistent drive to innovate aesthetic practices in photographic media. The publication presents some 20 artists working in photography, video, silkscreen, projection, and mixed media installation. Free as they want to be is inspired by the words of James Baldwin and the timely theme of FotoFocus, World Record, as well as events of late that have shaped the world as we know it. The artists selected for this publication are on the frontlines, creating, documenting, and writing. The works they have conceived reflect defining moments in the struggle for racial justice and equality. Exhibition: FotoFocus Biennial exhibition, venues across Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky, Dayton, and Columbus, USA (29.09.-08.10.2022).

Alternative title

1. Artists committed to memory

Subject

1. Art, Modern
2. Exhibition catalogs
3. 2000-2099
4. Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
5. Collective memory in art > Exhibitions
6. Slavery in art > Exhibitions
7. African Americans in art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

1. Exhibition catalogs.

Contents

1. Preface / Mary Ellen Goeke and Kathrine Ryckman Siegwarth -- Director's Forward / Woodrow Keown, Jr. -- Curators' Statement / Cheryl Finley and Deborah Willis -- Terry Adkins -- Radcliffe Bailey -- J. P. Ball and A.S Thomas -- Sadie Barnette -- Dawoud Bey -- Sheila Pree Bright -- Bisa Butler -- Omar Victor Diop -- Nona Faustine -- Adama Delphine Fawundu -- Deasha Devon Harris -- Isaac Julien -- Catherine Opie -- Yelaine Rodriguez -- Hank Willis Thomas - Lava Thomas -- Carrie Mae Weems -- Wendel A. White -- William Earle Williams.

Call number

1. Sc D 23-292

Note

1. Published to accompany the FotoFocus curated exhibition 'Free as they want to be': Artists Committed to Memory, on view at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, September 30, 2022-March 6, 2023.

Title

1. Free as they want to be : artists committed to memory / Cheryl Finley, Deborah Willis [curators].

Publisher

1. [Bologna, Italy] : Damiani, [2022]

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Connect to:

1. TOC

Chronological term

1. 2000-2099

Added author

1. Finley, Cheryl, curator.
2. Willis, Deborah, 1948- curator.
3. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Cincinnati, Ohio), host institution.
4. FotoFocus (Organization)

ISBN

1. 9788862087803 (hardcover)
2. 8862087802 hardcover

Research call number

1. Sc D 23-292
2. JQD 22-53