Please join us for an opening reception of Irreplaceable You: Personhood and Dignity in Art, 1980s to Now led by Sean Kramer, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow. The reception is preceded by a tour at 4:30 pm, which starts in the Museum entryway Pavilion.

On view through June 1, 2025, this exhibition features works of art that resist the rendering of human lives into objects of consumption, data sets, and/or algorithms. The exhibition touches on subjects from the recent and not-so-recent past, looking at how art helps build our capacity for empathy when our worldviews are often shaped by the twenty-four-hour news cycle and the Internet.

Free and open to the public. No registration is required. Presented by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

Pictured: Zanele Muholi, Sine IV, Melbourne, Australia, from the Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness) series, 2020. Gelatin silver print, 31 1/2 x 20 7/8 in. (80 x 53 cm). Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, Gridley W. Tarbell II Fund. Ó Zanele Muholi. Photography by Luc Demers.