Ford Foundation Gallery
Gallery Visit
Opening in March 2019, The Ford Foundation Gallery (part of the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice) aims to shine a light on artwork that wrestles with difficult questions, calls out injustice, and points the way toward a more fair and just future.
Join Royal Oak for a tour of their brand new gallery and inaugural exhibit, Perilous Bodies, the first of three exhibits that will present a mandate for social change under the theme of Utopian Imagination. This trilogy of exhibitions, curated by Jaishri Abichandani and Natasha Becker, brings together a diverse group of international artists who use tactics from craft, activism, data visualization and political propaganda to advocate for a more egalitarian society.
The exhibit we will tour, Perilous Bodies, includes photography, sculpture, video, installation, and performance art in which artists incorporate their own cultural traditions to address social and political oppression, xenophobia, racism, class and gender inequality. These works seek to transform a world in peril into one in which all people want to live.
After the tour we can visit the Foundation’s lush and beautiful interior garden.
Ford Foundation building
