{"id":141277,"date":"2019-12-04T10:57:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T15:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=141277"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:01:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T19:01:21","slug":"selected-utopias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/04\/selected-utopias\/","title":{"rendered":"Selected Utopias"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_141281\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/installation-view5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141281\" class=\"wp-image-141281 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/installation-view5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/installation-view5.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/installation-view5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/installation-view5-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-141281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation view: \u201cUtopian Imagination,\u201d Ford Foundation Gallery, September 17\u2013December 7, 2019. Photo: Sebastian Bach.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On my way to see \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fordfoundation.org\/about\/the-ford-foundation-center-for-social-justice\/ford-foundation-gallery\/exhibitions\/utopian-imagination\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Utopian Imagination<\/a>\u201d (on view through December 7), the final installment of the artist and curator Jaishri Abichandani\u2019s trilogy of shows at the Ford Foundation Gallery, I passed a group of Lyndon LaRouche acolytes. LaRouche, known over the last forty or so years as a convicted criminal, conspiracy theorist, and perennial candidate for president, died earlier this year, but his fringe beliefs live on through these dutiful members of his movement. They were handing out flyers such as <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">INTERNATIONAL CALL TO YOUTH: The Age of Reason Is In The Stars!<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which describes the climate activist Greta Thunberg as a \u201chedge-fund cover girl\u201d for Wall Street, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some Plain Facts Bearing On the Impeachment<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which proclaims: \u201cRemember, the oligarchy\u2019s spokesman, the British House of Lords, have already instructed their assets in the United States that under no circumstances can Donald Trump have a second term.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It used to be easier to dismiss fringe narratives like these, but things have changed: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushes anti-vax claims, Edgar Welch shot up the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria looking for an alleged (and quickly debunked) child-trafficking ring, and the aforementioned Thunberg gets picked on by President Trump for speaking about the realities of climate change. It\u2019s a hard time not only to be sure of a narrative\u2019s veracity but also of how to tell a better, more hopeful one. The pieces collected in \u201cUtopian Imagination\u201d provide glimpses of different futures, ones more joyous and inclusive. <\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_141285\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/farxiyo-jaamac.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141285\" class=\"wp-image-141285 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/farxiyo-jaamac.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/farxiyo-jaamac.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/farxiyo-jaamac-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/farxiyo-jaamac-768x501.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-141285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">farxiyo jaamac, <em>Android Girl<\/em>, 2017. Private collection.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not a large show, but it doesn\u2019t need to be. Abichandani has an eye for pieces that offer up their own stories, and the lack of accompanying text on the painted walls (blue, instead of the usual white, a quiet readjustment that resets the whole space) ensures that moving through the exhibition is an immersive and seamless experience. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abichandani draws inspiration from such writers and thinkers as Naomi Klein, Octavia Butler, and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, whose 1905 story \u201cSultana\u2019s Dream\u201d depicts a feminist utopia called Ladyland.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cYou need not be afraid of coming across a man here,\u201d a character explains early in Rokeya\u2019s tale. \u201cThis is Ladyland, free from sin and harm. Virtue herself reigns here.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_141289\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mariko-mori.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141289\" class=\"wp-image-141289 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mariko-mori.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mariko-mori.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mariko-mori-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/mariko-mori-768x561.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-141289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mariko Mori, <em>Miko No Inori<\/em>, 1996. Photo courtesy of the artist.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A few works here offer visions that resonate as strongly as a Ladyland. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first thing you see, even before entering the gallery, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is Saks Afridi\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prayer Catcher<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a flying mosque suspended vertically against a wall. It looks like part of a set for Muslim sci-fi action figures, and Afridi provides a compelling premise: \u201cFor a brief time, a mysterious spacecraft resembling a hovering mosque appeared, and every human on Earth was granted one answered prayer every 24 hours.\u201d With <\/span><i>Cloud 9<\/i>, Yinka Shonibare CBE imagines an African-led space program via an astronaut and a flag rendered in bright colors and dizzying patterns. Zack Ove\u2019s <i>Sky Lark<\/i>, a cobbled-together spaceship made of found materials (it\u2019s the only piece here whose materials list includes both \u201cvintage fairground ride\u201d and \u201ctrumpets\u201d), reimagines space travel as a method of transportation accessible to just about anyone.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_141282\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/zak-ove\u0301.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141282\" class=\"wp-image-141282 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/zak-ove\u0301.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/zak-ove\u0301.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/zak-ove\u0301-300x257.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/zak-ove\u0301-768x657.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-141282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zak Ove\u0301, <em>Sky Lark<\/em>, 2017. Collection of Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson, 21c Museum Hotels.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beatriz Cortez\u2019s contribution encompasses the wishes and hopes of many more than just the artist. At the push of a button, her four<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Boxes of Wonder<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0print out slips of receipt paper<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with quotes from famous authors and thinkers, dreams from the Guatemalan art collective Kaqjay Moloj, encouraging words from Cortez\u2019s email inbox, and wishes from \u201ca group of immigrants and border crossers.\u201d One of the printouts I received read:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Cuando llegue el futuro:<br \/>\n<\/em>When the future comes:<\/p>\n<p>We will have built dreams together<\/p>\n<p><em>Habremos construido anhelos juntos <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_141283\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lola-flash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141283\" class=\"wp-image-141283 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lola-flash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lola-flash.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lola-flash-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lola-flash-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/lola-flash-819x1024.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-141283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lola Flash, <em>Syzygy<\/em>, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Near the back of the exhibition is one of its most striking pieces, Lola Flash\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Syzygy, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a self-portrait created especially for this show. An artist and activist known for her involvement with <small>ACT UP<\/small>, Flash has often<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> participated in work that challenges prevailing narratives, such as the photo project <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moma.org\/explore\/inside_out\/2011\/03\/28\/nightclubbing\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kissing Doesn\u2019t Kill: Greed and Indifference Do<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Syzygy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Flash wears a prison jumpsuit, a space helmet, and a pair of handcuffs, unlocked. Behind her, blue sky with a single cloud, forested hills, and rippling water fill the frame.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shot from below, Flash towers over the scenery, as if swapped in for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2001<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s space monolith, a human answer to assumptions about an automated future. It\u2019s a composition that feels excited about a frontier. On the Ford Foundation Gallery\u2019s Instagram account, Flash says of the photo,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cIt\u2019s hard to think of life in the future when we\u2019re not incarcerated.\u201d But <em>Syzygy<\/em> offers a blueprint of a better, more galactic future, prisoners liberated and \u201cjumping from planet to planet full of joy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It takes work to be optimistic. Thankfully, Abichandani and the artists featured in \u201cUtopian Imagination\u201d have done that work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_141286\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/saks-afridi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141286\" class=\"wp-image-141286 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/saks-afridi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/saks-afridi.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/saks-afridi-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/saks-afridi-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-141286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Saks Afridi, <em>Sighting #6<\/em>, 2019. 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