Thu 10/10 @ 5:30PM
The next show at the Yards Project takes its cue from one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite bands, U2’s “With or Without You,” from its 1987 masterpiece The Joshua Tree. In the Yards show, BE/longing, the artists take off on one of U2 singer Bono’s explanations for the song: that it’s about internal tension, his fraught relationship with himself.
In it, the show’s statement tells us, they “respond to the precariousness of life through the expression of longing, grief, and spirituality. Each artist featured in be/longing engage with the themes of connection, belonging, and isolation in their own way. The visual transformation of the source image into an abstraction serves as a metaphor for the way that memory, and our nostalgia or longing for spaces and people from our past, becomes more intangible as it shifts over time.”
Artists in show include Alison Bogard Hall, Jules Briggs, Jacqui Brown, Martha Cliffel, Melissa Harris, Anne Manley, Sylivia Munodawafa, Nana Agyare, Julie Ezelle Patton, Sarah Raban, LaSaundra Robinson, Bobbi Reagins, Lacey Talley, Anna Tararova, and Scot Phillips. It opens with a reception on Thursday October 10 and with be on view through Saturday January 4.
yardsproject/belonging-with-or-without-you
Cleveland, OH 44113