“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.
On March 10, 2020, Qianwen Hu wrote her widely scattered collective of friends seeking photographs portraying their days. Images arrived from Auckland, Beijing, Benxi, Dequing, Hamilton, Jingdezhen, New York, Nanjing, Ningbo, Ottawa, Paris, Seattle, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tel Aviv, Toronto, Winnipeg, Wuhan, Xiamen, Xishuangbanna, Yueyang, and Yunxiao.Twelve days later, she had received 618 photographs from 40 people. She assembled a photo zine that “takes a leap into repetitive rituals, through a reconstructive and pure visual aesthetic, displaying boundless connection emerging from separate continents.” Her book uses day-to-day life as the means to knit together a fractured world.
