María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Classic Creole, 2003. Polaroid Polacolor Pro prints, nine parts, each 24 × 20 inches each (60.7 × 50.8 cm). Acquired through the generosity of Jodi and Hal Hess. Courtesy the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco. © María Magdalena Campos-Pons
Yayoi Kusama, LOVE IS CALLING, 2013. Wood, metal, mirrored glass, vinyl, ceramic tile, acrylic panel, blowers, lighting elements, speakers, and sound, 174 1/2 x 340 5/8 x 239 3/8 inches (443 x 865 x 608 cm). Acquired through the generosity of Barbara Lee/The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women; Fotene Demoulas and Tom Coté; Hilary and Geoffrey Grove; Vivien and Alan Hassenfeld; Jodi and Hal Hess; Barbara H. Lloyd; and an anonymous donor. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York; Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo/Singapore/Shanghai; Victoria Miro, London/Venice. Photo by Ernesto Galan © YAYOI KUSAMA
Installation view, The Worlds We Make: Selections from the ICA Collection, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2021–22. Photo by Mel Taing.
Installation view, The Worlds We Make: Selections from the ICA Collection, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, 2021–22. Photo by Mel Taing.
With every call for social change arrives the possibility to make the world anew. The Worlds We Make: Selections from the ICA Collection explores how artists have visualized beyond present reality to imagine, dream, and realize the world-otherwise. Drawn from the ICA’s permanent collection and Boston-area collections, these works consider world-making in relation to broader themes such as climate and the natural environment, historical narratives and speculative fictions, the supernatural and the planetary. Expansive in subject and medium, the exhibition includes works by artists such as Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Jeffrey Gibson, Lorraine O’Grady, Matthew Ritchie, and Yinka Shonibare CBE (RA), among others.
Also included in The Worlds We Make is Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room LOVE IS CALLING.
Together, the works in this exhibition celebrate the emancipatory potential of artistic imagination and invite other ways to see, create, and belong in the worlds we make.
The Worlds We Make: Selections from the ICA Collection is organized by Anni Pullagura, Curatorial Assistant.
