“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, Martha’s Vineyard, MA. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA)
Landfall
For Molly Peters, the tumult and change of 2020 has left the future unstable. “Even familiar scenes have been imbued with weight; either they carry feelings of nostalgia, looking at remnants of what life used to be like, or they embody the mystery of an uncertain future. As we move forward, the divide deepens between what was and what will be, and clarity on what the coming days and years will look like remains just out of reach.” Photographer Sally Mann states that “photographs open doors to the past, but they also allow a look into the future.” In her own compendium of images, Molly Peters imagines that future and feels it slip away in uncertainty.
