Celestia Morgan, Exhibition detail of REDLINE series, 2021. Photo courtesy the artist and Alabama Contemporary.
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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.
Installation of Distances at Alabama Contemporary Art Center. Photo courtesy the Alabama Contemporary.
Installation of Distances at Alabama Contemporary Art Center. Photo courtesy the Alabama Contemporary.
Celestia Morgan, Exhibition detail of Sky Maps from REDLINE series, 2021. Photo courtesy the artist and Alabama Contemporary.
Stacey Holloway, Detail of Fabricated Interactions During Social Distancing, 2020; mixed media, wood, silicone prosthetics, dimensions variable. Photo courtesy the artist and Alabama Contemporary.
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Installation of Distances at Alabama Contemporary Art Center. Photo courtesy the Alabama Contemporary.
Celestia Morgan, Exhibition detail of Distances, 2021. Photo courtesy the artist and Alabama Contemporary.
Stacey Holloway, Detail of Fabricated Interactions During Social Distancing, 2020; mixed media, wood, silicone prosthetics, dimensions variable. Photo courtesy the artist and Alabama Contemporary.
Distancesis on view at the Alabama Contemporary Art Center in Mobile through August 28, 2021.
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