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PROJECTS: GABRIELLE PROJECTS: GABRIELLE

L’HIRONDELLE HILL L’HIRONDELLE HILL

The Museum of Modern Art MoMA PS1

The Museum of Modern Art presents Projects: Gabrielle
L’Hirondelle Hill, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition
in the United States. On view in the Museum’s street-level
galleries, the exhibition also celebrates the 50th anniversary
of MoMA’s Elaine Dannheisser Projects Series. Hill, a Métis
artist and writer, has assembled multiple works in which
her use of tobacco as a key material alludes to the plant’s
complex Indigenous and colonial histories. The exhibition
features sculptures and drawings, including several new
works, constructed primarily from tobacco along with other
sourced and found materials collected from her Vancouver
neighborhood.

Installation view of Projects: Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, The Museum of
Modern Art, New York, April 25, 2021 – August 15, 2021. © 2021 The Museum
of Modern Art. Photo: Denis Doorly

Ahmed Morsi. Green Horse I. 2001. Acrylic on canvas. 90 x 70 x 1 1/4 inches.
Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94, New York. © Ahmed Morsi

Greater New York, MoMA PS1’s signature survey of artists
living and working in the New York City area, returns for its fifth
edition from October 7, 2021 to April 18, 2022. Delayed one
year, this iteration offers an intimate portrayal of New York by
creating proximity between key - yet often under-examined -
histories of art-making and emerging practices. Featuring the
work of 47 artists and collectives, Greater New York offers new
insights and opens up geographic and historical boundaries by
pinpointing both specific and expanded narratives of the local
in a city that provokes a multitude of perspectives. Bridging
strategies of the documentary and the archive on the one
hand, and surrealism and fabulation on the other, the exhibition
considers the ways that artists work to record social and
personal experiences around belonging and estrangement.
Drawing connections across the interdisciplinary practices of
international and intergenerational artists, Greater New York
examines the many ways that affinities are formed in relation to
place and through time.

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