“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. 1954 in Ottawa, Canada. Lives and works in Ottawa)
After the Fact
“In the dark times Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will also be singing.
About the dark times.”
–Bertolt Brecht
Writer Bertolt Brecht was living in exile from the Nazis when he penned that opening for a 1939 book of poetry. For Tony Fouhse, the verse sums up the meaning and emotion behind his project After the Fact. Fouhse’s photographs were made in his home town of Ottawa, Canada. They depict it, he states, “as it might be seen and felt in some possible future.” The images are portraits, tableaux, and landscapes assembled into an open-ended narrative. The sequence “points to the regression that’s in the air, to our increasing uncertainty and fear, and to the changing political and physical climates that we find ourselves in these days.”
