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Ehrlich Steinberg•Jul 27, 2024 — Aug 31, 2024
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display (v.)
c.1300, “unfold, spread out, unfurl” (a banner, etc.), from Old French desploiir (Modern French déployer) “unfold, unfasten, spread out” (of knots, sealed letters, etc.), from Latin displicare “to scatter,” in Medieval Latin “to unfold,” from dis– “un-, apart” (see dis-) + plicare “to fold” (from PIE root *plek- “to plait”).
Properly of sails or flags (and unconnected to play); meaning “reveal, exhibit, expose to view” is late 14c.; sense of “reveal unintentionally, allow to be seen” is from c. 1600.
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Display presents eleven artists with varied and overlapping approaches to the significance of display, both within their works’ subjects and their particular modes of presentation.
The exhibition takes as a starting point the photograph Theo (2024) by exhibiting artist Pamela Ramos. The photograph shows a young boy in his giraffe pyjamas looking at the wildlife diorama in the “Habitats of Africa” exhibit at the Natural History Museum of...More
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Ehrlich Steinberg•Jul 27, 2024 — Aug 31, 2024
Press release
display (v.)
c.1300, “unfold, spread out, unfurl” (a banner, etc.), from Old French desploiir (Modern French déployer) “unfold, unfasten, spread out” (of knots, sealed letters, etc.), from Latin displicare “to scatter,” in Medieval Latin “to unfold,” from dis– “un-, apart” (see dis-) + plicare “to fold” (from PIE root *plek- “to plait”).
Properly of sails or flags (and unconnected to play); meaning “reveal, exhibit, expose to view” is late 14c.; sense of “reveal unintentionally, allow to be seen” is from c. 1600.
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Display presents eleven artists with varied and overlapping approaches to the significance of display, both within their works’ subjects and their particular modes of presentation.
The exhibition takes as a starting point the photograph Theo (2024) by exhibiting artist Pamela Ramos. The photograph shows a young boy in his giraffe pyjamas looking at the wildlife diorama in the “Habitats of Africa” exhibit at the Natural History Museum of...More
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