Washington, DC, Becomes a Playground of Public Art.
by Jillian Steinhauer on October 13, 2014
Abigail DeVille, “The New Migration” (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic)
One week ago, an installation by artist Abigail DeVille was dismantled in Washington, DC. “The New Migration” was a collection of materials gathered by DeVille during a road trip from DC to Jacksonville, Florida, retracing and reversing the steps of a popular route taken by African Americans fleeing the South during the Great Migration. DeVille’s “materials” were mostly detritus: wooden planks, tires, abandoned furniture. They were installed unashamedly in a vacant storefront in the predominantly African-American neighborhood of Anacostia, a gesture meant to “explor[e] the implication of a new wave of migration to the South sprung by gentrification and urban development,” according to an exhibition pamphlet. Read More at: http://hyperallergic.com/154916/washington-dc-becomes-a-playground-of-public-art/
A view of Peter Hutchinson’s “Thrown Rope DC” (trees) and Eliza and Nora Naranjo Morse’s “Digging” in ‘Nonuments’ park