Greater Columbus: The 2020 Greater Columbus Arts Council Visual Arts Awards Exhibition
November 6, 2020 – April 25, 2021
Presented biannually from this year, Greater Columbus features work by outstanding artists based in central Ohio. The exhibition represents a partnership between the Columbus Museum of Art and the Greater Columbus Arts Council.
The protagonists of Laura Larson’s City of Incurable Women are depicted in a series of enigmatic escapes. These fugitives—tenacious, exhausted, ambivalent—move nervously within the frame. Each woman looks away from the camera or conceals her face. Larson writes:
“I’m interested in how the body can telegraph the complex experiences of these women through gesture and the stories lurking behind these movements. How can the body allude to the private history of a consciousness? Of suffering? Of pleasure? How can it act as a screen for the social and political influences that shape lived experience? The project draws its inspiration from multiple sources: archival images of women treated for hysteria, nineteenth-century hidden mother photographs, documentation of the Judson Group’s dance performances, photographs of political protest. Collapsing documentary realism and directorial artifice, my process reflects the strategy of looking between the visible—the historical—and the speculative.”
For more information: https://www.columbusmuseum.org/greater-columbus-the-2020-greater-columbus-arts-council-visual-arts-exhibition/
