2016

The artists in the 2016 portfolio share an interest in the political history of images and the continuous processes of their recontextualization. The artists re-perform and re-present existing images and cultural gestures, simultaneously speaking back to their sources and reverberating outward.

In mockery of carefully choreographed military routines, the dark clown of Broomberg & Chanarin’s The Folly of Comic Pain mimics the form and pose of a disfigured doll documented by Surrealist photographer Hans Bellmer. In Purple Haze: Hydrangeas in Space, Elizabeth Zvonar cuts and pastes found printed matter into a surreal homage to Jimi Hendrix, the Purple One (RIP Prince), and the beauty and mysteries of deep space. In June 22, Duane Linklater reproduces in miniature the cover art of an album by Comanche/Kiowa musician Jesse Ed Davis, which was in turn a replica of a painting by his father Jesse Edwin Davis II.