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Virtual Exhibition Tour: Recording the Blur

Saturday, June 12 | 12PM CT

Join FotoFest Associate Curator, Max Fields, for a virtual tour of Public Life: Recording the Blur, FotoFest’s public art exhibition that features works by Francis Almendárez, Yan Wang Preston, Lindokuhle Sobekwa, and Kara Springer.

Perhaps the most immediate consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, starting in early 2020, was the issuing of stay-at-home orders by governments around the globe. Life became a series of events experienced through the windows of our homes and computer screens. The bombardment of serious social, cultural, and political headlines combined with the experience of adjusting to life in isolation produced a paradoxical temporal phenomenon wherein the pace of the world seemed to simultaneously accelerate and stand still. The exhibition Recording the Blur examines this temporal paradox through works by artists who are interested in the relationships between intimacy and introspection, action and reaction, place and production – concepts that have challenged and redefined throughout the course of the past year. These artists turn their lenses to poetic moments that are loaded with complex cultural signifiers; signs that when considered in the context of pandemic time reflect a shared global experience and the post-pandemic vocabulary.

Image: Kara Springer, Untitled (Oil, Houston Texas), 2021. Chromogenic Print, 4 x 8 feet. Courtesy of the artist.