The museum joins forces every month with local nonprofit CulturalDC to present a local artist talk series in the Luce Foundation Center. This Saturday's talk is with Victoria Fu, an artist whose work ranges from drawings to still and moving images. I hope you can join us at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 1, when Victoria explores the museum's beloved collection of eye miniatures along with other works that depict the so-called portal to the soul. 

-- Tierney
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"What is it about images of the human eye that are so compelling? Windows, mirrors, pools, veils, portals--these metaphors speak to the hidden 'i' of the eye, a true self behind the unknowable. As we are increasingly living in and through media, the primacy of the eye remains clear: our point of social connection is not just through eye contact but through the visual processing of many, many images. How visual perception shapes us underlies the core issue of art itself: the representation of reality.

Please join me as I highlight pieces from the Luce collection, works from my concurrent exhibition next door [at CulturalDC's Flashpoint Gallery], as well as from other artists and filmmakers addressing the gaze of the eye, the surface of the screen, and the device of trompe l'oeil (including René Magritte, Luis Buñuel, Stanley Kubrick, Janine Antoni, Oliver Laric, just to name a few)."

-- Victoria Fu 

See our online calendar for more information. Victoria's talk is presented with CulturalDC's Flashpoint Gallery.

Image Credit: Victoria Fu, lorem ipsum II, 2013, 16mm film to video projection, photographs (framed and unframed), leaning object, 5:55 loop