The Great Camouflage
<p>“So, far from contradicting, diminishing, or diverting our revolutionary feeling for life, surrealism shored it up. It nourished in us an impatient strength, endlessly sustaining this massive army of negations.</p> <p>And then I think also to tomorrow.”</p> <p>— Suzanne Césaire</p> <p>Rockbund Art Museum presents <em>The Great Camouflage</em>, an exhibition bringing together sixteen contemporary artists and groups working across film, video, painting, and textiles, alongside archival and research-based practices, to explore the material and aesthetic circulations of transnational Black radical thought and the limits of revolutionary politics. Drawing on Suzanne Césaire’s call to sustain an “army of negations,” the exhibition situates contemporary artistic practice within the afterlives of revolutionary movements.</p>
Artists: Boz Deseo Garden, Bhenji Ra, Renée Green, Jingban Hao, Liang Hao, Onyeka Igwe, Euridice Zaituna Kala, Eric N. Mack, Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, Pope.L, Cauleen Smith, Christine Tien Wang, Tuo Wang, Charlotte Zhang, Cassandra Press, 44 Monthly
Curator: X Zhu-Nowell, Kandis Williams
Contributors: X Zhu-Nowell, Kandis Williams, Karen Wang, Zhen Pan, Sam Shiyi Qian, Xintong Chen, Zihao Zheng, Amy Fengyi Hu
Editors: X Zhu-Nowell, Kandis Williams
Copy-editors: X Zhu-Nowell, Zhen Pan, Allen Young
Designers: Xinyan Jin
Translators: Zhen Pan, Xintong Chen, Yifan Zhu
Part of: Rockbund Exhibition Guidebooks