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Fragments of a Crucifixion

This website was built on the occasion of the exhibition Fragments of a Crucifixion at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, May 25–November 3, 2019, organized by Marjorie Susman Curatorial Fellow Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol and presented in the McCormick Tribune Orientation Gallery on the museum’s second floor. It brings together new scholarship exploring the themes of the exhibition.

A depiction shows a faded image of a young person. There is a target outline over the image with text that reads

Introduction by Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol

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Titus Kaphar's Ascension and Colin Kaepernick's Kneel by Xiao Situ

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I Wish to Reveal: A Conversation with Joyce J. Scott by Phoebe Wolfskill

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A dark-skinned basketball player wearing a light-blue uniform shouts in the middle of an empty basketball court.

In Conversation with Paul Pfeiffer by Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol

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A sunny plain with trees in the distance. In the foreground, several wooden boards cover the earth. You can barely see small flowers and other markers denoting that this is a cemetery

"However the image enters" by Anni Pullagura

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A tall stack of paper on a gray concrete floor. The top piece of paper is printed with a black outline around a solid white rectangle.

“Untitled” (The End): Queer of Color Living After the Apocalypse by Joshua Chambers-Letson

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A framed artwork featuring a photograph of a galaxy with what appears to be a printing error in the middle. Inserted into the left side of the frame is a small photo of people.

Now Found: On Faith and Wonderment in Deana Lawson’s Messier 81, Return of the Dove by Jovanna Jones

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A fire effigy in the shape of a human figure with hands raised to the sides burns brightly against a hilly landscape at dusk

Fragments of a Crucifixion

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Credits

This website was built using the MCA’s web content management system (2015–2021) and has been reformatted for archival purposes.

MANAGER OF PLANNING and PRODUCTION
Lorenzo Conte

RIGHTS and IMAGES ASSISTANT
Elyssa Lange

SENIOR EDITOR
Sheila Majumdar

COPY EDITOR
David B. Olsen

MARJORIE SUSMAN CURATORIAL FELLOW
Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol

WEB CONTENT MANAGER and EDITOR
Anne Sheard

DESIGN and PROGRAMMING
Alexander Shoup

EDITOR and PROOFREADER
Shauna Skalitzky

Images found on this site are for educational use and are published under the umbrella of the Fair Use doctrine. Typeface created by Karl Nawrot.