Group Show at Galerie Buchholz
Cameron Rowland, Out of sight, 2020, 19th-century slave iron, 19th-century slave iron with missing rattle.
Irons with rattles built into their handles, called slave irons, were designed to be used by the enslaved working inside the plantation house to iron the laundry of the masters. While out of sight, the rattle audibly signaled to the master that the slave was working continuously. Removing the rattle was a refusal of this oversight. Rental.
Artists: Louise Lawler, R.H. Quaytman, Cameron Rowland
Venue: Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
Date: September 4 – October 24, 2020
Note: Checklist with notes available here.
Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.
Images:
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- R.H. Quaytman
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- R.H. Quaytman
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- Louise Lawler
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- Louise Lawler
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- R.H. Quaytman
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- R.H. Quaytman
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- Cameron Rowland, “Out of sight”, 2020, 19th-century slave iron, 19th-century slave iron with missing rattle. Irons with rattles built into their handles, called slave irons, were designed to be used by the enslaved working inside the plantation house to iron the laundry of the masters. While out of sight, the rattle audibly signaled to the master that the slave was working continuously. Removing the rattle was a refusal of this oversight. Rental.
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- Cameron Rowland, “Out of sight”, 2020, 19th-century slave iron, 19th-century slave iron with missing rattle. Irons with rattles built into their handles, called slave irons, were designed to be used by the enslaved working inside the plantation house to iron the laundry of the masters. While out of sight, the rattle audibly signaled to the master that the slave was working continuously. Removing the rattle was a refusal of this oversight. Rental.
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- Louise Lawler
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- Louise Lawler
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- Louise Lawler
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- Louise Lawler
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- Cameron Rowland
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- Cameron Rowland, “Reasonable Suspicion”, 2020, Form DCJS 3205. The NYPD incident report records the race of both the victim and suspect, but it only records the skin tone of the suspect. The suspect description functions to create a wanted profile that police seek to match. Matching a description in the vicinity of a reported crime is often considered enough to meet the standard for reasonable suspicion. According to the NYPD COMPSTAT report, in 2019 Black people constituted 52.35% of misdemeanor and felony suspects and 60.3% of Stop, Question, and Frisk subjects. In 2019 Black people constituted 24.3% of the city’s population.
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- R.H. Quaytman
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- R.H. Quaytman
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- Cameron Rowland
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- Cameron Rowland “Management”, 2020, time horn clock. Overseers, using the master’s clock, would sound a horn or bell to signal the start or stoppage of work across the miles of the plantation. Plantation time management was enforced through punishment. The sound of the horn, dislocated from the governing clock, dictated the master’s claim to the time of enslaved life.
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- Louise Lawler
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- Louise Lawler
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- Louise Lawler
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- Louise Lawler
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- Louise Lawler
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- Louise Lawler
Images courtesy of Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
Press Release:
Galerie Buchholz Cologne presents a show of works by Louise Lawler, R.H. Quaytman, and Cameron Rowland, three artists who know each other well and have worked together in various ways. This exhibition marks the first time their work will be brought together in a constellation, juxtaposing examples of their ongoing artist practices. Prompted by invitation, the artists have made new work, selected older pieces, and planned the installation in conversation with each other.