From Moment to Movement | Exhibit
From Moment to Movement
Picturing Protest in the Kramlich Collection
About
The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art hired the Department of Design at UC Davis to facilitate a video focused exhibition. This project required extensive research behind the art and strategy of video art, but also required assistance to the museums multifaceted team to create visual design elements to fit a compelling thesis.
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Role
As part of the small design team, I worked closely with the curatorial department in early-stage development to plan and conceptualize a compelling and accessible museum experience. Tasks include 3D renderings, layouts, floor plans and accompanying graphic materials. I took the lead role in working with my remote team to collect our design ideas and research to combine them into presentations to communicate the needs between stakeholders, art directors brand managers, and museum curators.
Final solution
I created a 3D animation model and renderings of the lenticular wall to help facilitate visualization of the possible introduction and title wall for the exhibition.
Each artist selected was thoroughly researched to convey a specific message.
Guest experience, video run time, noise level, accessibility, and floor plans were all taken into account.
The video and film installations featured in this exhibition employ the moving image to address social inequity, racism and failures of democracy. Grounding their work in real-world events in the United States, China, India and South Africa, the artists — Shiva Ahmadi, Dara Birnbaum, Kota Ezawa, Theaster Gates, Nalini Malani and Mikhael Subotzky — show us the capacity of human resistance to challenge dominant power structures. These moving images convey emotion, action and information simultaneously. They call on us as viewers to bear witness to personal and communal struggles. In its immediacy and in the hands of the artist, the medium itself becomes a powerful tool, one that can spark social movements and engender change.
Drawn primarily from the Bay Area-based Kramlich Collection, which is focused largely on video works that tell the most urgent stories of our time, From Moment to Movement offers multiple visions of both repression and defiance. Each artwork is a form of protest that reveals the role of media in our understanding of current events and illustrates the power of art to move us towards a more just and hopeful future.
– Susie Kantor, Associate Curator
Opening week with the design team and Maria Manetti
The introductory lenticular wall that reads “From Moment” as you walk in, “To Movement” as you move past – this graphic introduction was meant to simultaneously evoke protest and film.