Allegedly the Worst Is Behind Us
September 14, 2024 – February 23, 2025
Allegedly the Worst Is Behind Us features twelve contemporary artists exploring fractured memories and disrupted histories. Treating the body as a living archive, the exhibition examines historical trauma and how artists recover fragments of the past through installation, painting, and video.
Emily Wilson for KQED Arts praised the show:
"Pieces like this, and the show as a whole, drive home how effective art can be in conveying a broader spectrum of human experience. With the purposeful glitches in her video, Towfiq evokes her family’s fractured history in a way words cannot. Similarly, a news report about missing Indigenous women could never be as personally affecting as walking through Rainwater’s installation. These artworks… are now part of an alternate record, carried within each viewer."
Featuring Artists:
Razan AlSalah, Demetri Broxton, Arleene Correa Valencia, Paola de la Calle, Mik and May Gaspay, Pantea Karimi, Suchitra Mattai, Tricia Rainwater, Trina Michelle Robinson, Shirin Towfiq, Livien Yin
With thanks to Amanda Gorman for inspiring the title from her poem Ship’s Manifest. Curated by Zoë Latzer, Curator and Director of Public Programs.
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