Andrea Geyer | Manifest | Carnegie Museum of Art

Hales is delighted to announce that Andrea Geyer's site-specific commission Manifest, is now open at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh USA, through Winter 2023.

 

Andrea Geyer's Manifest actively acknowledges and embraces the idea that a museum is made of many people: from visitors and staff to artists, we make and remake the museum every single day. The eight banners with text facing inside and outside of the museum windows cast our voices beyond constructions of past and present and the impermeability of institutions while calling each of our imaginations into a shared space.

 

Manifest stems from Geyer's research on San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's (SFMOMA) founding director Grace McCann Morley and her belief in museums as integral to civil society and civic life. Geyer took Morley's mission to show the importance of art in every aspect of life and scripted a list of wants, needs, and demands put toward museums as an invitation to reimagine what one expects and hopes for when engaging such institutions today. Additionally, the statements in Manifest draw from writings and lectures by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, and Michel Foucault, as well as from those by more recent thinkers such as Wendy Brown, Jack Halberstam, Stefano Harney, and Fred Moten. Geyer also included references in response to the 2016 presidential election (which took place while Geyer was writing the original script) that called for museums to be sites of resistance and sanctuary.

 

 

Andrea Geyer

Carnegie Museum of Art

4400 Forbes Avenue

Pittsburgh

PA 15213

 

Through Winter 2023