We invited Franklin Sirmans, NY-based independent curator and cultural critic, to take the helm and we are pleased to present Things Fall Apart.
After four years, the annual group show at moniquemeloche is a tradition. However, this year we invited Franklin Sirmans, NY-based independent curator and cultural critic, to take the helm and we are pleased to present Things Fall Apart.
Things Fall Apart is a multi-media exhibition featuring the work of a diverse group of artists including William Cordova (NY), Rashid Johnson (Chicago), Izima Kaoru (Japan), Nikki S. Lee (NY), Katrina Moorhead (Houston), Aaron Romine (Paris), Jacqueline Salloum (NY), Larry Scott (Baltimore), Jeff Sonhouse (NY), and Roberto Visani (NY). Taking its title from the famous novel by Chinua Achebe, (who was quoting William Butler Yeats’ famous poem “The Second Coming” (1921), the exhibition is also inspired by the further textual riffing of The Roots 1999 album of the same title. In its most basic premise, the show deals with dissolution in myriad forms, from the post-war and post-colonialism subjects of Yeats and Achebe respectively, to the plethora of associations likewise in our present moment. In the work of the ten artists assembled here, the dissolution of relationships, both personal and political, are brought to the fore from romance narratives to the commodification of the art object. The paintings, drawings, photographs, videos and objects strategically question the future while distinctly considering the past from portraiture to pop.
