The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art believes in the power of the art of our time. Through programming, advocacy, and collaboration, we work with artists and communities to build a better world.
The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art believes in the power of the art of our time. Through programming, advocacy, and collaboration, we work with artists and communities to build a better world.
Jan 19, 2018 – Mar 17, 2018
The battle for wilderness is often portrayed as a land grab, a fight over barbed wire and resource allocation of locations we can see from space. And while a map is helpful when you’re carving things up, it is like offering coordinates to your heart-getting there does not explain what happens there.
The photographs in Monument mark the entry into that mystery. In the accompanying work-in-progress film, these stills transform into moving images, into a portrait of our physical experience in nature-a profound and political statement of what’s at stake, regardless of which side of the fence one shouts from.
Supported by ZAP and The Family of Margo Silvester.
Installation photograph, Eric Overton: Monument, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Jan 19—Mar 17, 2021, photo © UMOCA
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