March 13, 2024
AEON | “Rick Lowe: Mapping the Unknown” featured
‘If you’re creative, why can’t you create a solution?’ One artist’s imaginative activism
Aeon says: “Through Lowe, Rafael Salazar Moreno, a Spanish-born director based in the US, highlights how the artistic pursuit of aesthetic beauty can be harnessed for practical ends. He also highlights the ongoing story of Houston’s Third Ward, which, once partially demolished and abandoned, now sees its longterm residents faced with removal through gentrification. Mapping the Unknown is part of the US National Gallery of Art’s short documentary series West to East, which chronicles ‘contemporary artists and the connections between their work, their communities, and the nation’.”