The Carnegie Museum of Artwork in Pittsburgh is focussing on artwork and panorama with a set of initiatives—together with a six-episode podcast hosted by the tennis legend and frequent art-fair attendee Venus Williams—to coincide with an upcoming exhibition on images and the setting.
Widening the Lens: Pictures, Ecology and the Up to date Panorama (11 Could-12 January 2025) will characteristic practically 100 works by 19 artists, highlighting the variety and inventive progressivism of environmental images. Starting from black-and-white prints to immersive installations, the present will “defy conventional ideas of images” whereas monitoring the nuanced relationship between artist and nature. The companion podcast premieres on 26 June. There may even be a sequence of performances, readings and academic occasions.
A.Ok. Burns, earlier than the wake, 2014 © A.Ok. Burns, Courtesy the artist and Michel Rein
Widening the Lens is designed round 4 themes that interrogate colonial legacies, place nature as a memorial panorama, contemplate the human affect on the setting and centre ecological nervousness and anticipation. Artists will embody A.Ok. Burns, Dionne Lee, Xaviera Simmons, Sky Hopinka, Sam Contis, Justine Kurland, Chanell Stone and Tomás Saraceno.
“The undertaking explicitly seems to be at how the digital camera can act as a software to query inherited narratives about folks and ecology, and foreground tales which can be typically ignored or excluded,” Dan Leers, the Carnegie’s curator of images, mentioned in a press release.
Dionne Lee, Breaking the Fall, 2016 Courtesy the artist and Carnegie Museum of Artwork, Pittsburgh
The accompanying podcast will characteristic the voices of visitor students, writers and artists. As host, Williams seeks to underscore the legacies of artists of color whereas forging a partnership with the Carnegie primarily based on her tandem pursuits in increasing her photographic data and attracting an underrepresented viewers to the museum.
In a press release, Williams referred to as the exhibition “a deeply significant projectthat integrates artwork, setting and intentional storytelling. The collaborating artists and thinkers you may hear on the Widening the Lens podcast replicate various, international views and an unlimited vary of backgrounds and experiences; I’m proud to assist amplify their voices as they immediate us to contemplate new and other ways of regarding our landscapes by images.”
Widening the Lens: Pictures, Ecology and the Up to date Panorama, Carnegie Museum of Artwork, Pittsburgh, 11 Could-12 January 2025
