The exhibition 'Ways of Knowing' at the Walker Art Center presents works by 11 artists who make research an integral part of their practices. The exhibition, curated by Rosaria Güiraldes, invites consideration of contemporary arts’ critical role in the creation of knowledge.
"Research has become a fundamental element in certain artistic practices, especially as our world becomes more complicated and our notions of reality less fixed. ''Ways of Knowing' prompts us to consider what happens when artists step into territories of knowledge production traditionally associated with disciplines like anthropology, science, or history, opening new possibilities for how knowledge can be understood, represented, and disseminated through contemporary art," says Rosaria Güiraldes.
The presented artists are Eduardo Navarro, Iosu Aramburu, Sammy Baloji, Anna Boghiguian, Cabello/Carceller, Chang Yuchen, Sky Hopinka, Christine Howard Sandoval, Gala Porras-Kim and Rose Salane. Among them is also Petrit Halilaj, who shows 'Very volcanic over his green feather', an installation that enlarges the artist's drawings when he was 13 years old and living with his family in a refugee camp in Albania, displaced by the Kosovo War. The images are magnified and rearranged as monumental cut-outs in the gallery, combining poignant images of rural landscapes and animals with scenes of war and violence.
