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HOWL, eon (I, II)
2016-2017
Monumental abstractions absorb landscape, racial violence and the mythology of the American West.
Artist field note
Julie Mehretu
The map becomes a record of speed, conflict and collective movement.
Appears inAfrica & The African Diaspora
The five in one idea
Mehretu rebuilt history painting for a world of migration, data, protest and accelerated vision.