until Sunday January 28 2018

Whitney Museum of American Art
T : + 1 (212) 570 3600
99 Gansevoort Street
10014 New York
United States

AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD

Artist and activist Jimmie Durham (b. 1940), who is of Cherokee heritage, has worked as a sculptor, performer, essayist, and poet for more than thirty years. Durham was a political organizer for the American Indian Movement during the 1970s, but by 1987 he decided to live in self-imposed exile, settling first in Mexico, then in Europe in 1994. Much of his later work combines found and constructed elements with text to expose Western-centric views and prejudices hidden in language, objects, and institutions. Often considered an extension of his political activism, Durham’s art is critical in its analysis of society and oftentimes mockingly ironic in the broad spectrum of his artistic expression.