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Chloë Bass: Wayfinding: Pulitzer Arts Foundation,

April 17 - November 14, 2021
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Chloë Bass: Wayfinding: Pulitzer Arts Foundation

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April 17 - November 14, 2021
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Installation view: Chloë Bass: Wayfinding, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO, 2021. Photograph by Alise O’Brien © Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Alise O’Brien Photography

Installation view: Chloë Bass: Wayfinding, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO, 2021. Photograph by Alise O’Brien © Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Alise O’Brien Photography

The second phase of Chloë Bass's solo exhibition Chloë Bass: Wayfinding at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO.

The Pulitzer Arts Foundation's press release follows:

Chloë Bass (b. 1984) created Wayfinding, an installation of sculptures inspired by public wayfinding signage. Bass designed a set of more than thirty signs placed throughout the Pulitzer’s outdoor spaces. These works are organized into four sections. Each is anchored by a billboard posing a question that explores human emotions ranging from compassion and desire to anxiety and loss. Accompanying sculptures include archival images and statements written by the artist that encourage private reflection in public space, intensifying everyday moments.

Wayfinding also includes a site-specific audio artwork narrated by the artist and local collaborators. This component of the exhibition draws from several sources: quotes from the City of St. Louis’s Mow to Own Program (a program where citizens can acquire properties adjacent to their own by caring for the site for two years), Google and Yelp reviews of the Pulitzer, reports on aging and disorientation from the National Institutes of Health, landscape architecture teaching guides, and the artist’s personal narrative. It also incorporates many of the phrases written on the sculptures. Alongside Bass, the audio artwork is read by artist Damon Davis; poet, storyteller, and podcaster Cheeraz Gormon; and theater artist Ron Himes.

Chloë Bass is a New York-based artist who works in performance, publications, installation, and social spaces. She uses daily life as a subject for deep research into scales of human intimacy. Wayfinding is a sub-project of Obligation To Others Holds Me In My Place, a poetic investigation of intimacy within the immediate family. Bass has held numerous national fellowships and artist residencies. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Queens College, CUNY, where she co-runs Social Practice Queens.

Installations
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Exterior How Much Of Revison
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Park Like I Want To Believe That
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Exterior In The Absence
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Exterior In The Annals Of History
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tree Grove How Much Of Love
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tree Grove You Will Have To Trust Me
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Tree Grove 1 I Want To Believe That Desires
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Park Like Billboard

Installation view: Chloë Bass: Wayfinding, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, MO, 2021. Photograph by Alise O’Brien © Pulitzer Arts Foundation and Alise O’Brien Photography

Videos
  • Chloë Bass on Wayfinding at the Pulitzer

    Chloë Bass on Wayfinding at the Pulitzer

    Higher Education Channel Chloë Bass: Wayfinding, the newest exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, consists of a mixture of signage that doesn’t seek to identify or direct, but rather spark the imagination and... Read more

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