works by Tara Donovan</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hammer-Museum/"/Artist/Anya-Gallaccio/CE666822F9CA56E4">Anya Gallaccio</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hammer-Museum/"/Artist/Mona-Hatoum/EC1975A1596F95F9">Mona Hatoum</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hammer-Museum/"/Artist/Richard-Long/7837BE1535AD42FE">Richard Long</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hammer-Museum/"/Artist/Frohawk-Two-Feathers/19A25AE58F32DCB8">Umar Rashid</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hammer-Museum/"/Artist/Sherrill-Roland/DC5AB26EB2DCEC7C">Sherrill Roland</a>, <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hammer-Museum/"/Artist/Ed-Ruscha/D8EC3AD17D50F74A">Ed Ruscha</a>, and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hammer-Museum/"/Artist/Zarina-Hashmi/3AE6D34EF9FFD006">Zarina, among others.</p><p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

Jennifer Bolande</a>, Mona <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hammer-Museum/"/Artist/Mona-Hatoum/EC1975A1596F95F9">Hatoum, and <a target="_blank" href=https://www.mutualart.com/Organization/Hammer-Museum/"/Artist/Alison-Saar/34E5B667219A95A3">Alison Saar</a> are artists of the same generation who make conceptual works of art that are informed by the size and form of the human body. In three sculptures from the Hammer Contemporary Collection—Bolande’s Pinnacle (1989), Hatoum’s Bourj (2010), and Saar’s Stubborn and Kinky (2023)—each artist has used found materials to craft a theatrically protean object that flickers in and out of various iconographic connotations. The works’ titles, their materials, and the actions that transform those materials operate on multiple symbolic registers. Each of the objects offers oblique layers of meaning and implied narratives that evade conclusive explanation. They invoke theatrical and linguistic symbolism, but their signifiers remain porous. These artists emphasize the experience of perception, privilege the spectator’s interpretation, and insist that meaning remain open-ended.<p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

Lap-See Lam</a> is a Stockholm-based artist whose animation, films, virtual reality, and sculptural works consider how mythology, popular culture, and fiction can both define and alter perceptions of the self and cultural belonging. This exhibition features Lam’s immersive video installation Tales of the Altersea (2023), a work inspired by the ruins of a dragon-shaped ship that Lam could see from her studio window in art school. In 1990 the ship sailed from Shanghai to Gothenburg, Sweden, with the intention of serving Chinese food to European customers across ports in the North and Baltic Seas. The gastronomic venture didn't go as its owner had hoped, and the seafaring restaurant would eventually be abandoned. The ruins of this historic vessel serve as a jumping-off point for Lam’s dreamlike story of loss, memory, and resilience.<p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />

Colectivo Cherani</a> is a political and artistic initiative organized by an intergenerational group of artists: Betel Cucué, Giovanni Fabián Guerrero, Francisco Huaroco Rosas, Ariel Pañeda, and Alain Silva Guardian. Its name refers to the place where the collective was founded: Cherán, a town located in the state of Michoacán, Mexico. As part of a 2011 political uprising by the Purépecha community of Cherán, Colectivo Cherani has pioneered a cultural movement that seeks to recover and invigorate the plurality of cultural expressions of the Purépecha people. The collective’s output is characterized by the use of various artistic techniques, including painting, murals, graffiti, photography, installation, and hand-embellished objects, reflecting the customs and traditions of the community. Colectivo Cherani foregrounds the importance of communal justice, self-government, resistance, and the role of art and ancestral Indigenous traditions in transforming society.<p><br></p>" itemprop="description" />