“A Place to Put our Grief”: Jillian Steinhauer Considers COVID Memorials
“Our leaders have offered few spaces for reflection, so artists have stepped in to fill the gap.” In her piece on COVID memorials, New York-based writer Jillian Steinhauer considers four exhibitions that “offer us a place to put our grief.” Featured works by Jill Magid, the Zip Code Memory Project, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, and Coco Fusco in particular (Your Eyes Will Be An Empty Word, 2022, image) go beyond puncturing the anonymity of numbers; they “memorialize those whose stories we don’t know.”
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