Scene at Eastman unveiled on October 25, 2024 in museum’s Project Gallery
Rochester, N.Y., August 9, 2024— The George Eastman Museum is delighted to announce the forthcoming exhibition, Scene at Eastman, which will open on October 25, 2024 and close on April 20, 2025. The exhibition will comprise a set of photographs and sculptures made in aluminum, glass, concrete, paper, tin, and other materials. The photographs and sculptures in Scene at Eastman (“the works”) describe various acts and instances of apprehension, of address, of attendance to the presence of others. Some objects are original, others appropriated. The viewer’s own practice of looking is solicited by the works. Viewers are alerted to the presence of cameras within the exhibition space: to enter the galleries is to be observed.
The exhibition comprises works produced in various locations including, but not limited to: Republic of South Sudan, England, South Africa, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the states of California and New York. The works describe a variety of figures, places and objects—some recognizable, others perhaps obscure or esoteric, others still not physically in evidence. The works are arranged in a dialogue with one another that is offered to the viewer as an experience to occupy, or otherwise entertain them in their time of leisure. The selection of objects in the opening rendition of the exhibition will be subject to change. Some works will be removed, displaced, or substituted by others not present at the opening. Different viewers will thus experience differing exhibitions over time. The exhibition will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 4:55 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and 11:00 a.m. to 4:55 p.m. on Sunday.
Scene at Eastman is curated by Phil Taylor, in collaboration with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa.
Major support for 75th Anniversary exhibitions provided by the Rubens Family Foundation.
Public Programs
Exhibition Celebration
Thursday, October 24, 2024, 6-9 p.m.
Potter Peristyle
Artists in Conversation: Photographs and Language
Featuring and audience Q&A with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, followed by a conversation with artists Lucas Blalock and curator Phil Taylor.
Thursday, January 23, 2024 — further details to come
Dryden Theatre
Artists in Conversation: Exhibition and Duration
Artists Paul Pfeiffer and Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa in dialogue with curator Phil Taylor.
March 2025 — further details to come
Zoom (link available at a later date)
About the Artist
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa’s work has been recently presented in exhibitions including Greater New York 2021, at MoMA PS1, New York; But Still, It Turns: Recent Photography from the World (2021), at the International Center for Photography, New York; Bienal ‘21 Fotografia do Porto, Portugal; Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie (2020), Mannheim, Germany; and Down Time: The Art of Retreat (2019), at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. His photographic monographs include Hiding in Plain Sight (Harun Farocki Institut, 2020) and One Wall a Web (Roma, 2018). Wolukau-Wanambwa is the author of the book of selected essays Dark Mirrors (MACK, 2021) and, with David Campany, Indeterminacy: Thoughts on Time, the Image, and Race(ism) (MACK, 2022); he is the editor of The Lives of Images (two volumes, Aperture, 2021).
About the George Eastman Museum
Founded in 1947, the George Eastman Museum is the world’s oldest photography museum and one of the largest film archives in the United States, located on the historic Rochester estate of entrepreneur and philanthropist George Eastman, the pioneer of popular photography. Its holdings comprise more than 400,000 photographs, 28,000 motion picture films, the world’s preeminent collection of photographic and cinematographic technology, one of the leading libraries of books related to photography and cinema, and extensive holdings of documents and other objects related to George Eastman. As a research and teaching institution, the Eastman Museum has an active publishing program and its L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation’s graduate program (a collaboration with the University of Rochester) makes critical contributions to film preservation. For more information, visit eastman.org and follow the George Eastman Museum account on Facebook, as well as the @eastmanmuseum accounts on Instagram, TikTok, and Threads.
About the George Eastman Museum Photography Collection
The photography collection at the George Eastman Museum is among the oldest and best in the world. It comprises more than 400,000 objects that document the history of photography and related media. The objects date from the introduction of the medium in 1839 through to the present day. The collection encompasses works made in all major photographic processes, from daguerreotype to digital. Equally, the objects were created for a wide range of purposes—from amateur pursuit to artistic enterprise, from scientific inquiry to documentary record. The collection includes work by more than ten thousand different makers, and it continues to expand.
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