“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.
(b. 1988, Burlington, VT. Based in Los Angeles, CA)
For artist Kate Warren, the global pandemic is a “season of reappraisal,” a chance for change. The radical isolation she depicts in her photographs has forced the world to confront long-term problems lingering below the surface—systems of oppression, racism, deep-seated inequalities, catastrophic climate change. “Each day we paced around our ever-smaller rooms. Our cracks fractured and split. Into that space spilled light, bringing us back to our essential selves and allowing us to reconnect with parts lost to the pressures of productivity, radical individualism, and the need for constant validation.” From this start, Warren states, we can rebuild the world. “The only way out is through, and the pandemic forced us to do the work.”
