Orlando presents the work of 11 artists who experiment with the expansiveness and possibilities of human experience. Curated by Tilda Swinton, the exhibition is inspired by the themes of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 revolutionary novel Orlando: A biography—the story of a young aristocrat who lives for three centuries without aging and mysteriously shifts gender along the way—and Sally Potter’s equally groundbreaking 1992 film Orlando, which featured an androgynous Swinton in the starring role. Woolf’s tale has continued to hold sway over Swinton, who invited photographers with innovative and varied practices to create or gather work inspired by Orlando. The resulting exhibition of over 50 photographs includes baroque inventions by Mickalene Thomas, layered images by Carmen Winant, and fragmented figural studies by Paul Mpagi Sepuya, among others. Today, when suspicion abounds about those unlike ourselves, Orlando moves beyond a consideration of gender to celebrate openness, creativity, curiosity, and human possibility.
Tue & Wed 11am - 5pm
Thu - Sat 11am - 7pm
Sun 11am - 4pm
Free & open to the public
Art@Bainbridge
Princeton University Art Museum
158 Nassau Street
Princeton, NJ
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Orlando
