ANDREA GALVANI
What is left unspoken
OPENING:
25 March 2022. Until 14 August.
WHERE:
High Museum of Art – Atlanta (USA.
Curated by MICHAEL ROOKS
Is love intrinsic, or is it a habit? What is the difference between love and friendship? What is the relationship of love to truth, freedom, and justice? These are just some of the questions to be explored in What Is Left Unspoken, Love, featuring contemporary artworks from 1987 to 2021 that address the different ways the most important thing in life—love—is expressed.
Organized during a time of social and political discord, when cynicism often seems to triumph over hope, this exhibition will examine love as a profound subject of critical commentary from time immemorial yet with a persistently elusive definition. As poet and painter Etel Adnan wrote, love is “not to be described, it is to be lived.” Lovewill feature more than seventy works, including paintings, sculpture, photography, video and media art, by more than thirty-five international artists based in North America, Europe, and Asia such as Ghada Amer, Rina Banerjee, Patty Chang, Andrea Galvani, Jeffrey Gibson, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Tomashi Jackson, María de los Angeles Rodríguez Jiménez, Rashid Johnson, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Kerry James Marshall, Wangechi Mutu, Ebony Patterson, Magnus Plessen, Gabriel Rico, RongRong and inri, and Carrie Mae Weems.