Mood Swing

The Sculpture Center

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• Date Friday, November 22, 2024 - Saturday, January 11, 2025
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Update: The Sculpture Center has relocated its galleries and offices to 12210 Euclid Avenue and will re-open in November. Founded in 1989, The Sculpture Center is one of the only cultural institutions providing critical resources to sculptors along their journey.... more

Mood Swing features artists that set out to question power, issues of race and colonial thought, social cruelty, debates around reproduction and the body, and the agency and complications of self-formation. The past decade has witnessed rapidly shifting ontologies, and a significant change in mood in contemporary art to include exhibitions and artists that represent, explore, and embrace historically marginalized personal, social, and political narratives. This mood swing phenomenon includes the demand for visibility, and the motivation to visibly articulate complex realities and perceptions that are deeply felt.

In Mood Swing, an examination of the artists’ material practices conveys knowledge production that insists the interpretation of visual culture must recognize the purpose, process, and intentions of the creator. Furthermore, they promote the development of an audience or public which recognizes voices—as well as communities and knowledges—that are diverse and inclusive. Working with both a sense of urgency and a meditative intelligence, they conjure visual relationships and critique through the deployment of an emotionally disruptive beauty, distinguished by its creative connection to cultural encounter.

Curated by Marcella Hackbardt