“There is another world, but it is in this one,” said Surrealist poet Paul Éluard. In this exhibition, artists look to the future, imagining how we move forward from the tumultuous events of the past year. [read more]
Art in the Plague Year is an online exhibition organized by UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography and curated by Douglas McCulloh, Nikolay Maslov, and Rita Sobreiro Souther. UCR ARTS’s programs are supported by UCR College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, the City of Riverside, Altura Credit Union, and Anheuser-Busch.
All works in this exhibition are reproduced with permission of the artists/copyright holders. Works (images, video, audio or other content) must not be used or reproduced for any purposes other than fair use without prior consent of the artists.
“This year broke me.
I felt death breathing down my neck
it only let me face the pain head on
and bluntly.
Look inside,
and pick up the pieces.
I collected the dried leaves from my house to create micro landscapes. Where the exterior is an echo of my inner voice, using poetry as a way of relating to and understanding what was happening.
Micro landscapes that made me aware of another way of relating to nature, pain, life, and death.”
