The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Shore/Lines and Prospetto a Mare

Institution
Museum of Contemporary Photography/Columbia College
Grant Cycle
Fall 2023
Amount
$80,000
Type of Grant
Exhibition Support
Website
www.mocp.org ↗
Regina Agu, Passage, 2019. Digital print on Smaba Opaque, 4 panels total, 100 x 6 ft. Image courtesy of New Orleans Museum of Art. Photo by Roman Alokhin.
Regina Agu, Passage, 2019. Digital print on Smaba Opaque, 4 panels total, 100 x 6 ft. Image courtesy of New Orleans Museum of Art. Photo by Roman Alokhin.
Regina Agu, Passage, 2019. Digital print on Smaba Opaque, 4 panels total, 100 x 6 ft. Image courtesy of New Orleans Museum of Art. Photo by Roman Alokhin.
Dawit L. Petros, Recollections (Contrasting Notions, Battalion XIV), 2022/23. Serigraph on Arnhem paper, 29 ⅞ x 22 inches.
Dawit L. Petros, Istruzioni (Transits, Trajectories, Invisible Networks), Part III, 2021/23. Serigraph on Arnhem paper, 30 x 22 inches.

Multidisciplinary artist Regina Agu’s Shore|Lines is a large-scale panoramic installation and exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) that explores community memory within Black Midwestern lakeside communities, tracing legacies of historical migration from the Gulf South region to the Great Lakes. Using methods of oral history, photography, and archival research, her work examines waterways and natural environments as defining sites of Black life and belonging.

Building on artist Dawit L. Petros’s ongoing exploration of links between colonization, migration, and modernism related to Italy, East Africa (especially Eritrea and Ethiopia), Libya, and North America, Prospetto a Mare examines the ways in which colonialism and cultural memory are inscribed in the visual culture and built environment of Chicago.

 

“The Foundation’s commitment to supporting artists by funding the institutions that incubate, encourage, exhibit and critically engage their work is unwavering. Non-profit arts organizations face profound challenges due to the political, economic, social and cultural upheavals of our current moment.  At the same time, and more than ever, artists need the supportive community and creative encouragement that these organizations provide.”

Joel Wachs, President