Steve McQueen: Lynching Tree Exhibition
When:
Saturday, Jan 20, 2024 10:00a -
Sunday, Feb 04, 2024 5:00p
Saturday, Jan 20, 2024 10:00a -
Sunday, Feb 04, 2024 5:00p
Where:
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
25 Evans Way
Boston, MA 02115
Admission:
$20
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art, Good for Groups, History, Rainy Day Ideas
Event website:
https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/steve-mcqueen-lynching-tree
Lynching Tree offers an opportunity to show Steve McQueen's important photograph and host critical conversations about slavery in the United States.
Artist Steve McQueen reveals the hidden and erased histories that haunt the American landscape we inhabit, and the ways we negotiate the possibilities of the world we seek to create.
Upon entering the gallery, you will find a color photograph mounted in a lightbox that McQueen took while directing his film 12 Years a Slave (2013). With dramatic lighting and composition, McQueen exploits the beauty of nature to surface truths about slavery and racialized terror. Beckoning us to probe our surroundings for ever-present meaning, he aims to “unearth a certain sense of who we actually are, not who we want to be or who we think we are. . . . It’s the awakening not just hopefully for me but hopefully for the viewer.”
*Listing photo by Siena Scarff
