Gala Porras-Kim: Correspondences towards the living object
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
March 25 -July 24, 2022
Gala Porras-Kim’s work investigates the institutional frameworks that define, legitimize, and preserve cultural heritage, looking at the global circulation of pre-colonial artifacts extracted from their original sites and stored in museum collections in the West. Porras-Kim’s work questions the ethical principles of museum conservation while inviting the viewer to assign new meanings to artifacts displayed within institutions. CAM will present Porras-Kim’s first major survey exhibition in the Midwest, featuring multiple bodies of recent work, including drawings, sculpture, text pieces, and artifacts.
Gala Porras-Kim: Correspondences towards the living object is organized for the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Chief Curator, with Misa Jeffereis, Assistant Curator.
The exhibition is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and sponsored by Ann R. Ruwitch and John Fox Arnold, and the Henry Moore Foundation. The artist talk is sponsored by the Robert Lehman Foundation.
All images: Gala Porras-Kim: Correspondences towards the living object, installation view, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, March 25-July 24, 2022. Photos: Dusty Kessler.