Derek Fordjour: SHELTER

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

January 17 - August 23, 2020

For his first major solo museum exhibition, Derek Fordjour constructs an environment that places viewers in the heart of a storm. SHELTER, a seemingly makeshift, ramshackle structure of corrugated metal walls and a dirt floor is populated by the artist’s signature paintings and sculptures. The work is constructed to heighten visitors’ awareness of their temporal nature, the tenuous circumstances in which art is sometimes made, and the vulnerability of millions caught up in human migrations across the earth, seeking shelter from a multiplicity of storms. 

Derek Fordjour: SHELTER is organized for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Chief Curator, with Misa Jeffereis, Assistant Curator.