Like Water is a major group exhibition that makes fluid connections between intergenerational, geographically dispersed artists and art forms. The artistic practices gathered in Like Water demonstrate multifaceted engagement with water as an elemental force of profound poetic associations and material realities. The featured artworks consider water’s life-giving ability alongside its destructive power, affecting cultural, natural, and sociopolitical systems. They also employ watery metaphors to convey flooding, emotionality, and resistance. The historic immensity of water is taken on in works that evoke the Middle Passage and address present-day communities living along the Mississippi River.
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“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”