Crystal Z Campbell | Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow Lecture

Name: Crystal Z Campbell | Henry L. and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellow Lecture
Start: 2024-10-25T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Saint Louis Art Museum

Schedule

Fri Oct 25 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Saint Louis Art Museum | Richmond Heights, MO

Join us Wednesday, October 25, at 5:30 p.m., for a free public lecture from artist Crystal Z Campbell.
Campbell is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative research centers public secrets and the underloved, reflected in an archive-driven practice. Informed by rumor and anti-institutional forms of historical transmission alongside gaps in archival repositories and recorded histories, Campbell’s work lends attention to events, places, and people that have been underacknowledged. Campbell’s works on Henrietta Lacks — a Black woman whose cells were taken without consent and became the backbone of the biotech industry via the first immortal cell line — reflect Campbell’s interest in the intersections of perception and the optics of historical transmission. Intrigued by whispers, epigenetics, social and spatial histories, and embodiment as an archival form, Campbell is most known for time-based installations that combine archival traces, strategic opacity, abstraction, and the architectural and site histories of each location.
This event is part of the Sam Fox School’s Public Lecture Series and is free and open to the public. The lecture will take place at the Saint Louis Art Museum.
Image: Crystal Z Campbell, Makahiya (film still), 2024; digital video with sound; duration: 10 minutes; Courtesy of the artist; © Crystal Z Campbell