Highlighting uncertainty and contradiction, Truth or Dare emphasizes the importance of questioning both knowledge and belief by featuring artists that utilize illusion to entice, entertain, and explore the slippery terrain between fact and fiction, presence and absence, reality and imagination.
The Tenderness of The Wolves documents a maligned subgroup of Americans— disenfranchised, heterosexual, white men. Clem’s photography searches beyond the guarding that these men endure and adorns them with an intimate portrayal of their frailties.
Impression is an archive of photos captured during a self-reflection public installation, in which participants sat in front of a mirror and leaned in for a kiss. Artists Janet Creekmore and Ben Jason Neal collaborated on the project to explore ideas of sexuality, gender, self, cultures, and identity.
A photo-based installation, Fruits of Labor critically interrogates Momohara’s family’s 100-year immigration journey from plantation laborers in Japan to mainland America.
Body Doubles challenges the male gaze and reclaims ownership of the female body. Hubbs references nudes from art history and popular culture to manipulate how the female form is observed in her photographs.
Nuclear Fallout excavates the collective memory of the bomb and asks visitors to critically consider the way war is curated and remembered. Artist Migiwa Orimo works with three different archives to develop responsive installations.
Showcasing projects made collaboratively with communities that are being archived, this group exhibition explores the results of collaborative approaches to photography and offers opportunities for visitor intercommunication.
