Art In: SF Camerawork, Signs and Symbols, Hauser & Wirth
Cell Signals brings together visions from within U.S. prisons and jails to address the role of images in our understanding of incarceration in America. Through visitation hacks, repurposed archive reels, collaborative portraiture, cellphone pics and prison newspaper coverage, Cell Signals peers upon the growing and changing uses of both artistic gesture and networked, image-technologies within American security, prisons and homeland culture.
The Bureaucracy of Angels - Signs and Symbols
Signs and Symbols brings us a video piece by Broomberg & Chanarin, originally made in 2017. The 12 minute video depicts the destruction of boats used by African migrants in their journey across the Mediterranean to Europe.
Lorna Simpson: Give Me Some Moments - Hauser & Wirth
Hauser & Wirth is showing Lorna Simpson’s newest series of collages. The gallery describes her newest work as featuring “female and male protagonists, often the focal point of the compositions, who Simpson splices with architectural features, animals, and natural elements to create scenarios that are at once poetic and arresting.” The full series is available on the Hauser & Wirth website.