Cathy Lu's installtion Peach Garden (2018) is included in Prospect New Orleans 2024 triennial, Prospect.6: The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home.
Dates: 2 November, 2024 - 2 February, 2025.
Address: The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (CAC), 900 Camp Street, New Orleans, LA 70130-3908
Continuing its legacy as the longest-running, citywide contemporary art triennial, Prospect.6 will feature the work of 49 artists spanning approximately 20 venues and unconventional spaces. Curated by The Susan Brennan Co-Artistic Directors Miranda Lash and Ebony G. Patterson, the vast majority of the works on view will be newly commissioned, with an emphasis on large-scale and ambitious installations in both galleries and public spaces. This year will also mark the US debut of internationally-acclaimed works by six of the participating artists.
Prospect.6: The Future is Present, The Harbinger is Home will posit New Orleans as a global point of departure for examining our collective future as it relates to climate change, legacies of colonialism, and definitions of belonging and home. With regard to New Orlenians as Prospect’s first audience, the Co-Artistic Directors are inspired by the city’s unique ability to offer poignant lessons and models for how to live in constant negotiation with a warming planet, grounded within a community that reflects the global majority, and in direct proximity to the effects and aftereffects of colonial and exploitative economies. The exhibition urges consideration of the question, What does it mean to think of a harbinger as a gift?
In the spirit of the triennial’s city-wide model, this year’s presentation will envelop the different neighborhoods of New Orleans, mounting major artistic presentations from world-renowned artists across venues like Newcomb Art Museum, The Ogden Museum, The Historic New Orleans Collection, Harmony Circle, and Contemporary Arts Center. Prospect.6 will also champion the work of artists from various backgrounds and disciplines, such as Joiri Minaya, Raùl de Nieves, Abigail DeVille, Brendan Fernandes, Christopher Cozier, Joan Jonas, and Yee I-Lann, to prompt an exploration of New Orleans’s cultural breadths and social histories in relation to the city’s global footprint.
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