SALT
LAKE CITY, July 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Utah
Museum of Contemporary Art announced today that twenty-one local,
national, and international artists will be featured in the
exhibition, In Memory. The exhibition offers an in-depth and
layered meditation on remembering as a creative act and includes
the work of artists using a variety of mediums, including
Ana Mendieta, René Magritte,
William Kentridge, and Do Ho
Suh.
UMOCA's Executive Director Laura Allred
Hurtado, who curated the exhibition, remarked, "Our memories
shape who we are on every level, and yet, despite our deepest
desire to hold on to them, they inevitably fade. In Memory
explores remembering as a creative narrative act and takes an
in-depth look at the work of twenty-one artists who directly or
indirectly explore this idea in their work."
Roughly organized around three central themes—the document, the
remnant, and the ghost—In Memory looks at the deep human
need to cling tightly to our stories and experiences and the way
these stories inevitably shift and fragment. To remember is not a
clear and concrete act where one conjures an intact data file.
Instead, the very act of remembering is to corrupt the memory
itself, to remake it constantly. In this sense, remembering is a
creative act.
In Memory is on view in the Main Gallery Presented
by Diane & Sam Stewart through
February 22, 2025.
Artists participating in the exhibition include:
Edgar Arceneaux; Hannah Baer; Edward
Bateman; Rebecca Campbell;
Cara Despain; Angela Ellsworth; Ryan
Habermeyer; Emily Hawkins;
Julia Jacquette; William Kentridge; René Magritte; Ana Mendieta; Leah
Moses; Oscar Muñoz; Helga Landauer Olshvang; Daisy Paton; Dario
Robleto; Dalila Sanabria;
Michael Scoggins; Do Ho Suh; and
Mike Womack.
View original content to download
multimedia:https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/in-memory-an-in-depth-meditation-on-remembering-as-a-creative-act-features-the-work-of-21-artists-including-ana-mendieta-rene-magritte-william-kentridge-and-do-ho-suh-302194832.html
SOURCE Utah Museum of Contemporary Art