Curator Tour: Water After All
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John Akomfrah, still from Vertigo Sea, 2015. 48 min. 30 sec. Purchased jointly by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, with funds provided by the Pritzker Traubert Visionary Art Acquisition Fund, and by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2018
© Smoking Dogs Films; Courtesy Lisson GalleryAbout
Join Jack Schneider, MCA Curatorial Assistant, for an in-depth tour of Water After All.
Primarily featuring works from the MCA Collection, this exhibition is centered around our recent acquisition of Ghana-born British filmmaker John Akomfrah's Vertigo Sea. Presented in a spellbinding, three-screen installation, Akomfrah uses archival images, nature cinematography, and staged recreations; crossing time and space to reveal the poetic awe and horror of humanity's relationship with water. The artworks surrounding Vertigo Sea expand the exhibition's thematic focus, diving deeper into our reliance on, exploitation of, and contact with our precious environment.