Never Spoken Again is a traveling exhibition that reflects on the birth of modern collections, the art institutions that sustain them and their contingent origin stories. In considering how institutional collections organize our lives, Never Spoken Again brings together artists whose works open up a critique of material culture, iconography, and political ecologies. These practices examine not only the collected objects and the systems of distribution that facilitate their circulation but also the disciplines and subjects of study that they trade in.
Curator David Ayala-Alfonso, along with artists Sofia de Grenade and Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, discuss this exhibition and practices that question the underpinnings of modern collections and the political ecologies of resource extraction.
