Amy Sillman Included in ECHO DELAY REVERB

Amy Sillman is included in the exhibition ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought. The exhibition explores the history of the transatlantic circulation of forms and ideas through the works of some sixty artists, bringing together a wide variety of mediums and a number of new commissions. It presents how art in the USA catalyzed the revolutionary energies of thinkers, activists and poets who transcended genres and profoundly reshaped perspectives on the world, from Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida to Frantz Fanon, Jean Genet, Aimé Césaire, Jacques Lacan, Monique Wittig, Pierre Bourdieu and Edouard Glissant. The reception and translation of their work in the United States led to unexpected forms, creating tools for a critical vision of institutions, both those of art and those of society. Theory here serves as an instrument for challenging social, aesthetic and linguistic norms, opening up new ways of seeing and engaging in the world.

ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought offers an original exploration of these significant and often overlooked exchanges. The exhibition features works by several generations of artists, from the 1970s to the present day: some attest to a direct dialogue between theory and practice, others are sometimes subversive tributes, and still others are more allusive correspondences. Archival materials throughout the exhibition meanwhile highlight individuals, institutions, and publishers that played a crucial role in disseminating these ideas in the United States.

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