Resurrection

Nov 1, 2023 – Apr 6, 2024
Where

SHSMO Art Gallery

Center for Missouri Studies

605 Elm St.

Columbia

 

 

 

 

 

 

This video Installation by Valerie Wedel, an art professor at William Woods University in Fulton, Missouri, features enlarged, hand-painted copies of letters that are held in the archives of the State Historical Society of Missouri. The images have been artistically “aged” for effect, crumpled, torn, and scattered to represent controversies surrounding access to historical information. The reversed and animated texts symbolize breathing life back into these stories. These animations are intended to revive the texts.