Unsettling the City

Julie Mehretu’s large-scale print Epigraph, Damascus upends the representational possibilities of a city view, transforming the printed surface in a layered space of mark making.  

This exhibition will create space for close looking and consideration of this monumental work and the experimental processes used to make it. It will further contextualize Mehretu’s active engagement with the description and meaning of place through a selection of other works depicting cities.    

In darkness and light, growth and decline, cities have long drawn artists’ and viewers’ attention in ways that expand both the techniques used to depict them and the perspectives with which they are seen. The exhibition will facilitate a deep dive into the artistic power of these works. In addition, it will propose a broader conversation around the shifting meanings of cities in visual form.  

Unsettling the City: Julie Mehretu’s “Epigraph, Damascus” is curated by Clare Kobasa, associate curator of prints, drawings, and photographs.   

School and group visits

The Saint Louis Art Museum will offer early hours for school groups to visit Unsettling the City before the Museum opens to the public. For more information transportation assistance and other details, visit the school group page.

The Museum can also accommodate other groups up to 75 people at one time. Larger groups will be asked to split into different rotations. All groups, whether self-guided or led by a volunteer educator, must contact the Museum to arrange a group visit. Please note that ticketed exhibitions have limited capacity.

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