Peter Sacks: Resistance

When:
Thursday, Aug 25, 2022 11:00a -
Friday, Dec 30, 2022 5:00p

Where:
Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University
415 South Street
Waltham, Massachusetts 02453

EventScheduled OfflineEventAttendanceMode

Admission:
FREE

Hosted by:
...
roseartmuseum Rose Art Museum

Categories:
Art, History, University

Event website:
https://www.brandeis.edu/rose/exhibitions/2022/peter-sacks.html

Peter Sacks: Resistance is the first solo museum exhibition of works by the South African-born artist, Peter Sacks (b. 1950). The show presents over ninety never-before-seen portraits of individuals who have resisted political, racial, or cultural oppression over the past two centuries. The portraits’ subjects range from Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, and Nelson Mandela to Anna Akhmatova, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Volodymyr Zelensky. Each resistor’s face is embedded in a tactile composition of fabric, paint, personal items and texts, conveying a sense of their life, historical background, struggles, acts of resistance, and, sometimes, their death.


Additionally, the exhibition will include an audio collage of the voices of numerous contemporary literary, political, social, and cultural figures reciting excerpts they had chosen from resistors’ writings. Sacks notes: “many of these individuals not only inspired each other but became each other’s guides and sources of courage—as I hope they will become for those encountering them in this exhibition.”


Peter Sacks: Resistance pays tribute to generations of resisters using the power of art to transmit their legacies to future generations.

 

Peter Sacks: Resistance is curated by Dr. Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator and Professor of Fine Arts and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University.


This exhibition is generously supported by Geralyn Dreyfous, Nina and David Fialkow, Marni J. Grossman, The Heineman-Russell Foundation, Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Foundation, and Angela Westwater, Sperone Westwater.  Media partner: WBUR 90.9 FM

Share this event

Add to:

Reddit
08/25/2022 11:00:00 12/30/2022 17:00:00 America/New_York Peter Sacks: Resistance <p><strong><em>Peter Sacks: Resistance</em></strong> is the first solo museum exhibition of works by the South African-born artist, Peter Sacks (b. 1950). The show presents over ninety never-before...

https://www.thebostoncalendar.com/events/peter-sacks-resistance--2 Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02453 false MM/DD/YYYY

Sponsored events