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Dallas, TX | Curator-Led Tour of “If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future”
June 14, 2023 | 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Join us for a special behind-the-scenes tour of the critically-acclaimed exhibition “If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future: Selections from the Nando’s Art Collection.” Curated by Laurie Ann Farrell, this exhibition at the African American Museum of Dallas features some of the most notable South African artists including Zanele Muholi, Claudette Schreuders, Kagiso Patrick Mautloa, Igshaan Adams, Stephen Hobbs, Vivien Kohler, Anastasia Pather, Penny Siopis, William Kentridge, and Samson Mnisi. After the tour, we’ll enjoy Spier South African wines—courtesy of Nando’s—discuss, and network.
The exhibition brings together paintings, works on paper, sculptures, and photography as visual documentation of forgotten images and histories. These works were all created in South Africa between 1948 and 2020, and while they are bound by a specific time and place, they chronicle universal issues that touch us all: love, loss, and hope for a better future.
The African American Museum, Dallas was founded in 1974 as a part of Bishop College. The Museum has operated independently since 1979. For more than 40 years, the African American Museum has stood as a cultural beacon in Dallas and the Southwestern United States. Located in Dallas’ historic Fair Park, the African American Museum is the only museum in the Southwestern United States devoted to the collection, preservation and display of African American artistic, cultural and historical materials that relate to the African American experience. Learn more at aamdallas.org.
Enjoy this Dallas Morning News article about Farrell and the exhibition.
Admission:
- ArtTable Members – $10
- Member Guests – $20
- Public -$25
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Image credit: Zanele Muholi | Fisani, Parktown, 2016. © Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson, New York.
About the Curator:
Laurie Ann Farrell is a globally-recognized curator, art historian, and writer. Farrell was Senior Curator at the Dallas Contemporary, and previously Head of Modern and Contemporary Art Department and Curator at the Detroit Institute of Arts from 2016 to 2019. From 2007 to 2016 Farrell was Executive Director of exhibitions at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She started her career in 1999 at the Museum for African Art in New York, where she was the first Curator of Contemporary Art.
In 2006, she organized the American participation at the inaugural Trienal de Luanda with support and funding provided by the U.S. Department of State. Farrell received the Abraaj Capital Art Prize with artist Kader Attia in 2010, ArtTable New Leadership award in 2011, and Southeast Museum Conference 2015 Museum Leadership Award. Widely published, Farrell’s work has been featured in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, African Arts, Vogue, CNN, the Detroit Free Press, the Washington Post, Artnews, Flash Art, and ArtForum. In 2020, Farrell led a conversation with Carrie Mae Weems and André Leon Talley for the RESIST COVID project.
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