San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
RYAN KOST’S OFF-THERADAR PICK
The gallery space, as we we have come to know it, is a very white space. It’s white in color and often in presence — a space that has traditionally been filled with art by white makers, actively and passively excluding the voices of people of color.
A new exhibition at SOMArts Cultural Center, “Forever, A Moment: Black Meditations on Time and Space,” looks to reinterpret this legacy and offer a future and new way of understanding the “white cube.”
The show, curated by Yetunde J. Olagbaju and Kevin Bernard Moultrie Daye, invites 14 artists to reshape “the gallery itself into a new type of space, one unburdened by societal expectations of Blackness.”
The artists take on this tasking through a variety of media — installation, photography, video and paint. “Forever, A Moment,” opens Thursday, Feb. 14, with a reception featuring additional performance artists.
The show runs nearly two months. The curators also plan a oneevening series of film screenings for March 7. Forever, A Moment: Black Meditations on Time and Space Opening Reception: 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14. Free. SOMArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan St., S.F. www.somarts.org