STATES OF EMERGENCY

The COVID pandemic appears to be here to stay. As we learn how to navigate this new reality amidst the ongoing chaos of (mis)information and mixed messages, we turn to one another for guidance. Artists – as cultural first-responders – are at the forefront of translating the felt experience of this time of emergency into visual languages, making sense of our precarious times. Featuring new works made since the start of the pandemic by artists from the MOMENTUM Collection, “States of Emergency” compiles their responses to a decade of global environmental and political crisis: particularly to the current pandemic emergency which has transformed all our lives. “States of Emergency” asks: What will emerge out of this global emergency?; While doctors and scientists race to heal our bodies, what will it take to heal the cultural aftermath of COVID?; What is the role of the artist in a state of emergency? “States of Emergency”, marking the end of MOMENTUM’s 10th Anniversary program, is a sequel to “COVIDecameron”, also available to view on ikonoTV. More Info on the Exhibition at MOMENTUM: http://www.momentumworldwide.org/exhibitions/states-of-emergency/