The Gatherers

The Gatherers brings into focus current artistic practices mining the ruins of excess production, failing infrastructure, and political instability. Featuring over a dozen international artists—many showing for the first time in a US museum—the exhibition includes sculptural installation, assemblage, painting, video, and performance. While artists have rummaged for decades, the exhibition underscores how retooling detritus has new meaning for a generation grappling with the impacts of recent world orders, such as the ongoing fallouts and failures of globalization and neoliberalism. Artists in The Gatherers make visible the spatialized politics of memory within the built environment, drawing attention to how histories reverberate into the future.

ARTISTS
Karimah Ashadu (British-born Nigerian, b. 1985)
Tolia Astakhishvili (Georgian, b. 1974, with Dylan Peirce and Maka Sanadze)
Miho Dohi (Japanese, b. 1974)
Andro Eradze (Georgian, b. 1993)
Samuel Hindolo (American, b. 1990)
Geumhyung Jeong (Korean, b. 1980)
Klara Lidén (Swedish, b. 1979)
Jean Katambayi Mukendi (Congolese, b. 1974)
Nick Relph (British, b. 1979)
Selma Selman (Bosnian, b. 1991)
Ser Serpas (American, b. 1995)
Emilija Škarnulytė (Lithuanian, b. 1987)
Zhou Tao (Chinese, b. 1976)
He Xiangyu (Chinese, b. 1986)