As early as 6,000 BCE Native North Americans east of the Mississippi selected a vast array of stones to carefully carve into enigmatic shapes with drill holes down the center. Thousands of these stones are in private and public art and archaeological collections, even thousands more are still deep in the ground.
Arts@Graham
How can art serve as evidence? Intensely naturalistic art—be it a photograph or an ancient sculpture—seems to make truth claims about the world around it. But a discussion of objects reveals that interpreting representational practices produces a host of common questions and dilemmas that thread through time and place.
Since early June, College alumna Cecília and Marina Resende Santos (both A.B. ’18) have been working on a project called Open sheds used for what?, a rotating installation aimed at activating and intervening in unoccupied open spaces in the city. Open sheds is manifest of the Resende-Santos’ shared interest in critical spatial practices as a form of art practice, which began during their undergraduate studies in Art History and Comparative Literature, respectively.