Anamnesis
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A long scroll sprawled and draped over chairs, door frames, and other living room furniture; parts of it are illuminated by overhead lights. The scroll features various cyanotype photographic prints of different abstract nature in a teal blue and white color. Illegibly written in between the prints are poems.
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Creativity in the Time of COVID-19
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- In Copyright
- Date
- 2019/2022
- Contributors
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Arce, Alexander
- Artists
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Kray, Emily
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- , in art
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Installations (visual works)
Prints (visual works)
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No linguistic content
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- 1 scroll
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Vellum scroll, ink, and cyanotype printing
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Alex and I struggled to find solid ground during the pandemic. Both of us became unemployed and were still expected to pay rent and take care of our families. Friendships became frayed and we felt the weight of isolation. In order to come to terms with our new reality, we decided to make this massive scroll to reflect how we felt. In the summer, with the assistance of the Medici Grant, I proposed the idea for "Anamnesis," which means ‘the remembering of things from a supposed previous existence.' We chose to confront how our experiences during the pandemic have altered our understanding of what normalcy and regularity meant in the past. We wanted to focus on the fragility of the system that we lived in, so we decided to juxtapose the extremes within the system. Poverty versus wealth, health versus illness, life versus death, and isolation versus community thematically fill the scroll. We asked questions about how these stark differentials in quality of life exposed the weakness of leadership and the unfeeling dystopia of our late stage capitalist society. Although the scroll is evidence of this struggle, it is also evidence of personal and collective integrity, empathy, confusion, and resilience. Pairing poetry with cyanotypes along the scroll presents a ghostly yet unarguable existence of the body as an intersection point for these larger political, social, and economic themes. --Label design by exhibit curator Nancy DeJoy. Labels written by Ben Lash and his team in consultation with artist statements.
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