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The Whitney Museum of American Art has joined with Aperture and the Institute of Fine Arts to engage in a series of conversations that center on photography as a creative act and means of responding to urgent questions in the world around us.
This program brings together Kelly Akashi, Mo Costello, and Erin Jane Nelson, three artists in the 2026 Whitney Biennial who work with an expansive idea of photography, using photographic ideas and practices to make work that does not necessarily take the final form of a photograph. Together with Michael Famighetti, editor of Kimowan Metchwais: A Kind of Prayer (Aperture 2023), who will speak to the innovative multimedia work of Kimowan Metchewais (1963-2011), this program will consider how contemporary artists engage with photographic methods and histories. Following brief presentations, Biennial co-curator Drew Sawyer will moderate a conversation about these expanded photographic practices and artistic interventions that continue to reinvent the medium.
The Whitney Museum of American Art has joined with Aperture and the Institute of Fine Arts to engage in a series of conversations that center on photography as a creative act and means of responding to urgent questions in the world around us.
This program brings together Kelly Akashi, Mo Costello, and Erin Jane Nelson, three artists in the 2026 Whitney Biennial who work with an expansive idea of photography, using photographic ideas and practices to make work that does not necessarily take the final form of a photograph. Together with Michael Famighetti, editor of Kimowan Metchwais: A Kind of Prayer (Aperture 2023), who will speak to the innovative multimedia work of Kimowan Metchewais (1963-2011), this program will consider how contemporary artists engage with photographic methods and histories. Following brief presentations, Biennial co-curator Drew Sawyer will moderate a conversation about these expanded photographic practices and artistic interventions that continue to reinvent the medium.
