![]() His work depicts undulating, interconnected organic material so densely combined that it is impossible to extricate one form from another. While previous iterations of the triennial have opened with a bang, this fall, Prospect.5 opened relatively quietly, launching a few venues at a time over the course of the past month, and moving its official gala to January 2022.Īt Tulane University’s Newcomb Art Museum, Ron Bechet’s large-scale charcoal drawing For My Fathers (2014) hints at one of the major themes of Prospect.5-the complex and inextricable systems connecting our uncertain futures to our troubling pasts. Though the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the destruction caused across Louisiana by Hurricane Ida this past August have dampened the opening of this exhibition, in some ways, these crises have made this year’s edition all the more relevant and needed in the city. ![]() ![]() Just as the first Prospect launched during the long recovery phase of an emergency, so, too, has Prospect.5. The wake of history lingers forcefully in how these artists think through their artwork today. This year’s exhibition sees 51 artists across 16 different venues bringing together themes of violence from enslavement, Indigenous genocide, and more recent subjugations such as the invisibility of migrants and environmental degradation. That inheritance lives loudly in Prospect’s fifth iteration, “Yesterday we said tomorrow,” curated by Naima J. ![]() The first edition of Prospect New Orleans opened in November 2008, just three years after Hurricane Katrina forever marked the city, highlighting the systemic injustices faced by communities of color across the Gulf Coast. ![]()
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