Jim Hodges: Every Way

About the Exhibition

Jim Hodges's work combines delicate everyday objects such as silver chains, cloth flowers, and fragments from shattered mirrors to evoke a sense of memory, longing, nostalgia, and loss. Hodges will present a number of installation-based works, some of which will be developed especially for the MCA. The exhibition is part of a three-year series of shows titled Hope=Life: Living in the New Age of AIDS.

Jim Hodges transforms everyday items-including silk flowers, broken mirrors, silver chains and clothing-into complex, elegantly reductive and delicate meditations on nostalgia, memory, identity and loss. His work reflects the tendency of contemporary artists to explore personal issues-such as the loss of friends and colleagues to AIDS-that have both social and political relevance.

This exhibition and related programs are made possible with the generous support of Abbott Laboratories. The exhibition is coordinated by Amada Cruz, the MCA’s Acting Chief Curator who was recently named Director of the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, New York, and MCA Assistant Curator Dominic Molon.