Andrea Carlson’s Red Exit to Appear on NYC High Line
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The Whitney Museum of American Art in collaboration with High Line Art will present Andrea Carlson’s Red Exit (2020) as part of an ongoing public art series. The 17-by-29 foot vinyl reproduction is installed directly across from the Whitney and the High Line on the southwest corner of Gansevoort and Washington Streets.
The composition is anchored by a loon, known in the Ojibwe re-creation narrative as an Earth-Diver, who alongside other surviving animals, helps remake the world. Carlson also incorporates the infinity sign from the flag of the Métis People and the silhouetted figure of “Man Mound,” a destroyed earthwork—fractured by a road—that appears here to rise up from the land. Through her images, which take shape as a continuous wake pattern, she invokes moments of resistance and empowerment. Symbols of Native advocacy come together in a gesture of reclamation, creating new narratives of Indigenous experience in North America. While Red Exit confronts the ongoing erasure of Indigenous cultures, it is, in the artist’s words, a celebration of “the place we (Native People) reserve for ourselves … places of joy amidst removal, exclusion, and attempted assimilation.”
Red Exit will be on view January 25 through September 19, 2021.
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