Chloë Bass’s #sky #nofilter (2016–23) comprises a series of investigations around the 2016 US presidential election. The project began as a compilation of photographs taken with the artist’s iPhone of cloudless blue skies, capturing what Bass explains as “a chronicle of every day that I woke up and went into the world during a year that left me, as a Black American, increasingly agoraphobic and traumatized.” Building on these images, Bass developed a video accompanied by a performance, and concluded with #sky #nofilter: Hindsight for a Future America (2023), a participatory glass sundial that debuted at the California African American Museum (CAAM) in Los Angeles, CA. For the artist, #sky #nofilter functions “… first as an abstract work of art; second, as an individual story; and third, as a critical questioning of what we share.”
