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Review

Frieze names Suzanne Lacy’s exhibition as one of ‘The Top 10 Shows in the US of 2022’

"In his review of Suzanne Lacy’s thematic survey at the Queens Museum, Travis Diehl points out the difficulty of launching a retrospective of this kind: the 'gap between the active, catalytic artwork of the past and the more-or-less nonreactive present archive’. The bulk of Lacy’s work lies in organizing intimate conversations between women. In International Dinner Party (1979), her collaborators communed in locations around the world, then sent her details via telegram. The distinctly pre-internet documentation and ephemera that populate the show require the audience to exercise prodigious imagination to activate their responses, but reward us with forthright and often-moving insights. ‘Again and again,’ Diehl writes, ‘documentation of Lacy’s projects includes the refrain: “I’m not alone in my pain.”’  

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Solo Exhibition

Suzanne Lacy: Uncertain Futures

Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
June 24, 2021 - December 31, 2024

This new installation by Suzanne Lacy reveals the processes of social practice: engagement, leadership, policy and research which Lacy has pioneered. Uncertain Futures is a multi-year project addressing intersectional discriminations of age, gender, migrant and disability status, and race, with progressive periodic installations of performance, film, graphics, and sound. In this installation, the painting Work, by Ford Maddox Brown, is juxtaposed to a portrait of 100 older women who are directly part of this project which aims to produce significant academic research on the work experiences of these women.

More on the exhibition here.