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Exhibition

Humanities Day Gallery Tour

10.19.2019

Event Summary

Humanities Day visitors were invited to join the Neubauer Collegium for a guided tour of Martha Rosler: Passionate Signals, the first exhibition by the acclaimed New York–based photo and video artist to center primarily on her interest in flowers, gardens, and related “green” motifs. This may seem a somewhat unorthodox iconographic preoccupation for an artist fêted for her critical interventions in the public sphere and for her pioneering role in bringing together art and activism, aesthetics and politics. Pairing a selection of twenty-five years’ worth of flower and garden photographs with emblematic early video pieces, embroidery, and a domestically scaled earthwork, Passionate Signals highlighted the social, political, and economic costs of producing beauty at its most innocuous. “Say it with flowers” – but what, exactly?