#public installations

[brooklynmuseum]

👋  London! JR: Chronicles is now on view at Saatchi Gallery from June 4 - October 3, 2021. Featuring iconic works that highlight the voices of everyday people, JR: Chronicles demonstrates the artist’s ongoing commitment to community, collaboration, and civic discourse. Working at the intersections of photography, social engagement, and street art, the multimedia exhibition showcases original photographs, contact sheets, videos, and documentation of his public installations.  

If you have a friend in London who you think will enjoy this show, share this with them and tell them to check it out! 

Posted by Olivia Gregory JR (French, born 1983). 28 Millimeters, Women Are Heroes, Action dans la Favela Morro da Providência, Stairs, a Few Days Later, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2008. Color lithograph. © JR-ART.NET

[sheltiechicago]

“If the Leader Only Knew” (2014). 

Evoking Historical Struggles, Hank Willis Thomas Examines the Intersection of Art and Activism

Through his bronze sculptures and public installations, Hank Willis Thomas (previously) examines history’s repetitions. The Brooklyn-based artist critically considers identity, social justice, and pop culture by visually weaving together the remains of the past that surface in present day. “Art is a platform where histories meet,” he tells Colossal.

Thomas’s sculptural pieces include a series of hands clenching a barbed wire fence, an oversized hair pick lodged into concrete, and a gleaming basketball balancing on players’ fingertips. No matter the medium, the interdisciplinary artist begins by examining advertisements and archival images and the messages those contain. “The transfer of a photograph into a three-dimensional expression allows the viewer to delve within a photograph and form an intimate understanding of the ideas it represents. That relationship inspires critical thought about the viewer themselves and the world around them,” he says.

All images © Hank Willis Thomas

“Raise Up” (2014)

“All Power to All People” (2017). Photo by Steve Weinik

“History of the Conquest” (2017), bronze. Installation view at Jazz Museum for Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp. Photo by Mike Smith

[indiaartndesign]

Design as a tool to revive public spaces!

H&P Architects revitalises the Mao Khe Mining Park in Vietnam through a series of design interventions that activate this open space and make it suitable for public use. Check it out here… https://bit.ly/MaoKhePark-HPA-IAnD

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