Abstract:
On the eve of the inauguration of her retrospective exhibition “Mediations”- currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art- Susan Meiselas traveled back to Nicaragua where she took the image “SOS Nicaragua: The bullets…” in June of 2018.
Depicting a graffitied cement wall with the words “SOS Nicaragua,” next to an unknown man with a t-shirt over his face who writes, “las balas (the bullets)…” in bright orange spray paint, the image confronts us with an ad-hoc, self-proclaimed call for help that is unfolding and unfinished.
Publication date:
October 9, 2018
Publication type:
Blog Entry