Deborah Willis: Meditations on Civil War

Created in 2018 and 2020, Deborah Willis’ series of photographs, Meditation On Joan Baez’s Civil War, Sundays in Harlem and the Clothesline Series, are timely visual frameworks for understanding America’s past, present and future. In these works, Willis captures a past collective memory of conflict that reflects the present day, where the contemporary American political climate holds up a grim resemblance to the ills that gave rise to the Civil War.

Willis seeks to emphasize clothing, objects, memory and storytelling through gesture and movement, while reclaiming the body’s agency through the practice of resilience. These three series will be presented by Welancora Gallery in the Nova sector at Art Basel Miami.

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On View: December 6 – 8, 2024
Art Basel Miami
Welancora Gallery, Nova (N9)
1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach

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