“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. 1949, New York, NY. Lives in Los Angeles, CA, works almost everywhere)
A Plague of Plagues
Mark Indig is a photographer whose vision is quirky, sardonic, and ultimately dark. He is also deeply restless. (But for the moment, he occupies a world where only the virus travels freely). Indig began as a location scout for Hollywood movies; an arm carries a tattoo that commemorates travel to fifty states and fifty countries. The encounters captured in this set of images, he states, express how the pandemic has revealed and underscored despair about additional societal plagues. Indig’s hammer-blow list: “isolation, fractured government, political division, greed, income inequality, climate change, pollution, corruption, violence, homelessness, religious fanaticism, economic disaster, racism, and anomie.” For Indig, the idiom “We are all in this together” is not a hope, but a sinister prediction.
