Curator Ashley James on "Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility"
"Going Dark" brings together these 28 artists who obscure the figure in some way. There are many artists who are really thinking seriously about what it means for photography to have embedded within it this tension. On the one hand, it offers so much access and visibility that we desire. At the same time, it carries this threat of overexposure which can be used against you in circulation. I think that tension of visibility—wanting to conceal but then also wanting to be present and have a kind of legibility in various spaces. This is just a kind of human concept, this question of visibility.
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“Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility” presents works of art that feature partially obscured or hidden figures, thus positioning them at the “edge of visibility.” In this art context, the common phrase going dark is understood as a tactic whereby artists visually conceal the body to explore a key tension in contemporary society: the desire to be seen and the desire to be hidden from sight.
Artists in the show articulate “going dark” by way of formal strategies that may include literal darkening methods like shadowing; rotating the body; novel materials and printing methods; and post-production tools that blur or brighten. Some of the most recent works that will be on view draw upon digital technology, such as the chroma-key green (or blue) screen. These works move fluidly between figuration and abstraction, and many of the artists inventively manipulate color and light to also obscure optical perception, challenging the very biology of vision.
Occupying the Guggenheim Museum’s iconic rotunda, “Going Dark” presents more than 100 works by a group of 28 artists, the majority of whom are Black and more than half of whom are women. While most of the works date from the 1980s to the present, a selection of them were created in the 1960s and ’70s by three iconic artists—David Hammons, Faith Ringgold, and Charles White—suggesting that the development of Conceptual art during these decades launched new pathways of expression that laid the groundwork for contemporary artists tackling the “edge of visibility” today.
“Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility” is organized by Ashley James, Associate Curator, Contemporary Art, with Faith Hunter, Curatorial Assistant.
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