“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. 1970, Lansing, MI. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA)
The Future
Mark Holley documented Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Hollywood, West Hollywood, and downtown Los Angeles. He participated, he photographed. The protests seem to be of this exact moment, precipitated by known events, specific deaths, current injustices. Their aim, however, is change, and change reaches into the future. But traveling into the future is complex. Holley’s photographic website opens with an epigraph by David Bowie: “The truth is, of course, that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same time.”
