SIDE X SIDE

SIDE X SIDE includes works by Scott Burton, Kate Huh, Nicholas Moufarrege, Martin Wong and Carrie Yamaoka. The exhibition considers the impact of AIDS on a generation of artists faced with the onset of the epidemic. Beginning around 1980, as the first cases of what we now know as HIV were being diagnosed, the arts community in particular was hit hard, and once again artists were first responders to crisis. In the face of confusion and terror, artists engaged and responded with decisive urgency to the needs of their communities, sharing information and productively affecting change through non-traditional modes of activism. This exhibition is not about AIDS per se. These artists allude to the epidemic in ways both direct and more nuanced. Their practices run parallel to a collective cultural catastrophe that intersects with many societal injustices and crises. SIDE X SIDE shows these artists’ works over time, with an acute awareness of crisis and its impact on them.