CURRENT EXHIBITION
Onyeka Igwe: THE REAL STORY IS WHAT’S IN THAT ROOM
6 November 2021 - 26 February 2022
Opening Reception 6 November 2021 11am
With a forensic lens, Onyeka Igwe’s commissioned film a so-called archive (2020), interrogates the decomposing repositories of Empire, and offers the central feature in her first solo exhibition in North America, THE REAL STORY IS WHAT’S IN THAT ROOM. Blending footage shot in two colonial archive buildings—one in Lagos, Nigeria, and the other in Bristol, United Kingdom—the film is a double […]
CURRENT EXHIBITION
SPACE: Shellie Zhang | A day passes like a year: Ode to Autumn
22 September 2021 - 14 December 2021
Mercer Union’s SPACE billboard commission has invited artist Shellie Zhang for its 2021–22 season for a yearlong series titled, A day passes like a year. Known for her highly composed still life works that assemble objects of pop iconography, cultural construction, and diasporic memory, Zhang’s photographs offer vibrant gestures of reclamation, humor, and dissidence. In […]