The upcoming CMOA retrospective “Sarah Rosalena: In All Directions” (Sept. 6, 2023 – April 2024) will exhibit pieces from her recent exhibitions, including “Pointing Star” at MCASB, “Standard Candle” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and “Above Below” at Blum & Poe, as well as earlier and new works.
A 80-page catalogue will also be published, with essays written by Elizabeth Povinelli (Franz Boas Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University), Kathryn Yusoff (Professor of Inhuman Geography at Queen Mary University of London) and Kris Paulsen (Curator and Associate Professor of Art History at Ohio State University).
“The retrospective was introduced by professor of art history Kris Paulsen who is writing a book on critical AI and is writing a chapter about my work in that book,” Rosalena said. “But she also wanted to curate this show because of how it breaks down techno-solutionism as a way to solve problems.” Rosalena’s work intersects with many of the anxieties around future technologies such as space colonization and the rise of AI.
The title of the exhibition, “In All Directions,” alludes to the irrelevance of the compass points in the expansiveness of the universe, CMOA said in the exhibition announcement, “and the potential held in multi-cosmologies, temporalities and the infinite that could help us rewrite the narratives of the past and imagine different futures that break the binary structures rooted in ‘discovery.’”