We are pleased to have works on loan by artists Rebecca Campbell and Angela Ellsworth for the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition In Memory.

The exhibition, In Memory, includes 18 artists working in a variety of mediums and offers an in-depth and layered meditation on the many angles of what it means to remember. Despite our deepest desire to hold on to the past, memories are ephemeral, subjective, transitory, and fleeting, powerfully existing in both mind and body. To remember is not a clear and concrete act where one simply conjures an intact datafile. Rather, the very act of remembering is to corrupt the memory itself, to constantly remake it each time.

In this sense, remembering is a creative act.

And yet, despite their malleability, memories are core to our humanity. A small breeze of a smell, a few notes of a sound can vividly and inexplicably transport the mind from the present to a compelling and fully reconstructed past world. From the artifact to the archive, these archeological objects are meaning-ladened visual clues that stand in for a vast panorama of lives lived.

Roughly organized around three central themes—the document, the remnant, and the ghost—the exhibition explores the deep human need not only to tightly cling to the stories and experiences that create our sense of self, but also the way—despite our most obsessive efforts to record and hold on to—memories inevitably fade.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Edgar Arceneaux; Hannah Baer; Ed Bateman; Rebecca Campbell; Cara Despain; Angela Ellsworth; Ryan Habermeyer; Emily Hawkins; Julia Jacquette; William Kentridge; René Magritte; Ana Mendieta; Leah Moses; Oscar Muñoz; Helga Landauer Olshvang; Daisy Patton; Darin Robleto; Dalila Sanabria; Michael Scoggins; Do Ho Suh; Mike Womack

Join us at the opening reception on Friday, July 12 from 6:00 pm-9:00 pm MST.

Utah Museum of
Contemporary Art
20 S. West Temple
Salt Lake City UT 84101