Distances at Alabama Contemporary, Mobile

By Burnaway Staff August 28, 2021

Celestia Morgan, Exhibition detail of *REDLINE* series, 2021. Photo courtesy the artist and Alabama Contemporary.

Installation of *Distances* at Alabama Contemporary Art Center. Photo courtesy the Alabama Contemporary.

Tia-Simone Gardner, *There’s Something in the Water*, 2019; film, 10 minutes and 10 seconds. Photo courtesy the artist and Alabama Contemporary.

Curated by Peter Printz of Birmingham’s Space One Eleven, this exhibition of work by artists Tia-Simone Gardner, Stacey Holloway, and Celestia Morgan, explores differing forms of distances which have been enforced throughout history. From stay-at-home orders and six-feet-rules of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, to housing discrimination and systemic racism, Distances gives a visual representation of the challenging social and economical distances we have, and are still enduring.

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Stacey Holloway, Detail of *Fabricated Interactions During Social Distancing*, 2020; mixed media, wood, silicone prosthetics, dimensions variable. Photo courtesy the artist and Alabama Contemporary.

Celestia Morgan, Exhibition detail of *Sky Maps* from *REDLINE* series, 2021. Photo courtesy the artist and Alabama Contemporary.

Celestia Morgan, Exhibition detail of *Distances*, 2021. Photo courtesy the artist and Alabama Contemporary.

Distances is on view at the Alabama Contemporary Art Center in Mobile through August 28, 2021.

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