Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

On view 10 December 2022–9 July 2023,  Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass is an immersive and poetic meditation on the great 19th-century abolitionist. The poignant 10-screen film installation collapses time and space to bridge persistent historical and contemporary challenges of the day. 

 

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Image: Isaac Julien, J. P. Ball's Photographic Studio, Douglass/Apparatus (Lessons of the Hour) , 2019

Photograph on matt archival paper face mounted on aluminium
120 x 80 cm
47 1/2 x 31 1/2 in
© Isaac Julien
Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

 

December 10 2022