The invitation »Trust me!« is one that one knows very well cannot simply be obeyed. Starting August 19, eleven artists from the collection of the Museum of American Art are taking a step forward and a step toward the visitor. In Trust Me, they reveal emotional, personal, and intimate interpersonal moments.
»Trust me!« is an imperative that some people find easier to follow than others. Can shared emotions help? That's the question the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York is exploring starting August 19. The exhibition Trust Me brings together works by eleven artists from the museum's collection. Family and kinship relationships, friendships, romantic partnerships, and networks dominate the paintings. Beyond the frame, they create a sense of connectedness and vulnerability-an aspect that the Whitney would like to emphasize here.
The works of Laura Aguilar, Genesis Báez, Alvin Baltrop, Jenny Calivas, Moyra Davey, Lola Flash, Barbara Hammer, Muriel Hasbun, Dakota Mace, Mary Manning, and D'Angelo Lovell Williams do not so much document as follow an undefined intuition as a mode of creative practice. They venture into realms of intimate personal reflection and poetic attentiveness. As the title suggests, they move forward by placing their trust in the unknown audience beforehand. Trust Me will be on view until February 2024.
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