Adia Millett's Underground (2021) is on view at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), as part of the group exhibition Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection.
Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection
Exhibition period: 5 August 2026 - 11 July 2027
Venue: 2155 Center Street Berkeley, CA
For centuries, artists across the globe have responded to the turbulence of their societies by imagining ideal worlds. In response to moments of crisis and human suffering, artists, writers, and scholars have drawn on the concept of utopia-a term formed from Greek words that literally translate to "no place"-and looked toward the potential of the future as a way to reckon with the problems of the present. Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection invites visitors to contemplate spiritual, social, environmental, and political possibilities for alternative realities through artworks from a vast range of historical periods and places. From fifteenth-century European paintings and Buddhist hanging scrolls produced throughout Asia to contemporary photographs and installations, the works on view demonstrate how art has been central to envisioning better social realities, rethinking inherited narratives of progress, and claiming spaces of liberation.
Text and image courtesy of theBerkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Learn more --
https://bampfa.org/program/some-particular-heaven-ideas-utopia-bampfa-collection
