Artists

Julie Mehretu, David Hammons, Cindy Sherman, Allora & Calzadilla, Mike Kelley, Anicka Yi, Pope.L, Jimmy DeSana, Martha Rosler, Walid Raad, Andrea Fraser, Juliana Huxtable, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Oscar Tuazon, Renée Green, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Amy Sillman, Firelei Báez, Meleko Mokgosi, Glenn Ligon, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Hans Haacke, Paul Chan, Dan Graham, Sky Hopinka, Kiki Smith, Cameron Rowland, Joan Jonas, Laurie Anderson, Tom Burr, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Vivienne Dick, Mark Dion, Torkwase Dyson, Hedi El Kholti, Hal Fischer, Coco Fusco, Charles Gaines, Ellen Gallagher, Andrea Geyer, Adler Guerrier, K8 Hardy, Hock E Aye Vi, Edgar Heap of Birds, Char Jeré, Mary Kelly, Caroline Kent, James Luna, Tala Madani, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Wangechi Mutu, Lorraine O’Grady, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Allan Sekula, Lorna Simpson, Fred Wilson, Cici Wu

Press release

The group exhibition 'ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art, Francophone Thought' explores the history of the transatlantic circulation of forms and ideas through the works of some sixty artists, bringing together a wide variety of mediums and a number of new commissions. It presents how art in the USA catalysed the revolutionary energies of thinkers, activists and poets who transcended genres and profoundly reshaped perspectives on the world, from Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida to Frantz Fanon, Jean Genet, Aimé Césaire, Jacques Lacan, Monique Wittig, Pierre Bourdieu and Edouard Glissant. The reception and translation of their work in the United States led to unexpected forms, creating tools for a critical vision of institutions, both those of art and those of society. Theory here serves as an instrument for challenging social, aesthetic and linguistic norms, opening up new ways of seeing and engaging in the world.