Marketing Photos with Mary Virginia Swanson

An exhibition entitled THE EDGE OF INTENT opens May 1st at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP).

A brief statement below from the exhibition’s informative webpage:

“Cities can be tenuous places. As Marco Polo describes the city of Thekla to Kublai Khan:

Those who arrive at Thekla can see little of the city, beyond the plank fences, the sackcloth screens, the scaffoldings, the metal armatures, the wooden catwalks hanging from ropes or supported by sawhorses, the ladders, the trestles. If you ask, “Why is Thekla’s construction taking such a long time?” the inhabitants continue hoisting sacks, lowering leaded strings, moving long brushes up and down, as they answer, “So that its destruction cannot begin.” And if asked whether they fear that, once the scaffoldings are removed, the city may begin to crumble and fall to pieces, they add hastily, in a whisper, “Not only the city.”

— Natasha Egan, Associate Director and Curator

The exhibition includes works by:
Liset Castillo
Dionisio González
Andrew Harrison
Tim Long
David Maisel
Simon Menner
Danielle Roney
Christina Seely
Eric Smith
Joel Sternfeld

MONDAY, MAY 1 EVENTS

From the MoCP event website:

“Join us as Edge of Intent curator and MoCP Associate Director Natasha Egan is joined by exhibiting artists Christina Seely, Tim Long and Andrew Harrison to discuss the work on view.”

Friday, May 1st at 5:00 p.m.

Museum of Contemporary Photography, 200 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago

Held in conjunction with ART CHICAGO (May 1-4)