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Some of the looping films in the exhibition make the Animal Farm connection obvious—the first stop off the elevator shows a rooster greeting the dawn in silence. None of the films, in fact, use sound. The projector sits deep in a narrow cavity next to the elevator shaft so that you are tempted to look back at it, but at the same time as you are drawn to the rooster on the screen it’s difficult not to stand in the way of the projector’s beam.
Lining the walls of Candice Madey gallery, the series is the centerpiece of light takes time to reach us, an exhibition of fourteen new works (all 2023) by Stacy Lynn Waddell, who transposes the art historical narratives of nineteenth-century American painting and midcentury photography into gilded compositions that speak to contemporary issues of climate change, inequity, and race.