The Gatherers

Accompanying the major exhibition at MoMA PS1, The Gatherers brings together original texts on issues relating to waste, accumulation, and excess. In a time when social and political lives are shaped by the glut of garbage and information, the exhibition draws methodological parallels between fourteen artists across four continents. This compendium features full-color illustrations of their artworks, which span sculptural installation, assemblage, painting, video, and performance. In a longform essay, Ruba Katrib contextualizes their practices within the promises and failures of neoliberalism, the shifting constructions of East and West, and the explosion of new technologies. Additionally, the catalogue situates their practices within larger art historical trends, from Greek asàrotos òikos and Dutch still lifes, to twentieth-century Surrealism and post-war assemblage. With newly commissioned texts on each of the participating artists by leading curators, theorists, and writers from across the globe, the catalogue offers incisive critical writing on issues in contemporary art and the twenty-first century.

Edited by Ruba Katrib.
Foreword by Connie Butler.
Contributions by Ruba Katrib, Kristy Bell, Amber Esseiva, Anette Freudenberger, Sheldon Gooch, Summer Guthery, Estelle Hoy, Quinn Latimer, Laura McLean-Ferris, Camila Palomino, Filipa Ramos, Nadim Samman, Fabian Schöneich, and Jeppe Ugelvig.
Designed by Alec Mapes-Frances.