Fri 5/12 @ 5:30-8PM
This week the Sculpture Center opens its new pair of shows with a reception on Friday May 12.
Detroit-based sculptor/performance artist/educator Quinn Hunter’s When the Block Was Long uses found images to look at how Black spaces in the U.S. were destroyed in the early-mi 20th century with a focus on Detroit. It looks at how communities were divided, dispersed and even wiped out, due to redlining and its evil twin, blockbusting, causing white flight and disinvestment. “Layering history, geography, social relations, and the present, this exhibition places truths beside each other to create an image that is wholly in its representation of Detroit and America,” says the show’s statement.
Also going on view is Impotent Pegasus by Mingdong Sun, who also has a Detroit connection: He’s a graduate of the Cranbook Academy of Art there. His show features found objects and “concepts” as well as origami animals to “create a system where the compositions contain each other while forming an unearthly harmony,” drawing on both Eastern and Western folklore, “placing himself as a queer character at the center of the story to subvert the classical tales and enact a mythical queer legacy.”
Hunter will be doing a performance called “you’ve made a ghost of me” from 6:30-7pm during the reception. The two shows are on view through June 24.
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