![]() ![]() ![]() For Mehretu, this reflects the time during which she was working on the prints (2019/2020): A moment of severe uncertainty scarred by the rise of fascist authoritarianism, civil unrest, an upcoming US election with an uncertain result, and a global pandemic. Both authors describe a moment of reigning chaos, a moment in time when everything seems to culminate and fall apart right before everything is halted, awaiting what’s to come. The title of the series stems from Joan Didion’s 1967 essay Slouching Towards Bethlehem, which in turn references William B. The media images are blurred to allow the subliminal forms, color and light from the photos to merge with the complex compositions of agitated gestures and erasures which Mehretu executed in a variety of printing techniques. The base layers are distorted news images from anti-immigration protests. In the chromatic large-scale prints, Mehretu combines photogravure with classic intaglio printing techniques. BORCH Gallery & Editions present Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Julie Mehretu. ![]()
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