Shaping the Past: exhibition

Shaping the Past in Houston!

Goethe Pop Up Houston, Project Row Houses, and the Station Museum of Contemporary Art have teamed up to display the Shaping the Past poster exhibition from July 31st until September 18th.

Developed by the Goethe-Institut and curated by the Monument Lab, the Shaping the Past poster exhibition can be viewed at the Goethe Pop Up, Project Row Houses’ Community Gallery, and an outdoor installation at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art.
The fellows and projects will be different in each, so visit each of them for the full experience!
   

Shaping the Past builds connections and showcases patterns that constitute a transnational memory culture at work to address systemic racism and sexism, social and economic exclusion, and legacies of colonial and state violence.

Featuring works by artists, activists, and collectives from North America and Germany—all part of the Monument Lab Fellows Program—this exhibition broadens understandings and illuminates ongoing memory interventions that reimagine civil society. The spotlighted projects offer innovative and reparative models through creative changemakers who are actively shaping the past and our paths forward.

Goethe Pop Up Houston presents this poster exhibition as part of an ongoing commitment to memory work as embodied in Shaping the Past.

In 2020, Goethe Pop Up Houston, together with Project Row Houses, launched an Artwork-in-Residence program for community-based projects in Houston which engaged with the influential afro-futurist text of Alisha B. Wormsley: There are Black People In The Future.

In addition to the residency project, Wormsley collaborated with Houston artists Phillip Pyle II., Robert Hodge and Lovie Olivia on a series of flags that respond to Wormsley’s text “There Are Black People In The Future.” The flags fly in front of the shotgun houses that were restored as artist residencies on the grounds of Project Row Houses. Alisha B. Wormsley is a featured fellow in the Shaping the Past project and will be displayed at the Project Row Houses Community Gallery.

The posters are in English but brochures are available in Spanish.