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Gallery Talk: Other Walks, Other Lines

In the distance, a black man walks forward, holding onto a yellow steel sidewalk railing as he at a clear blue sky. Behind him is a mountain filled with green trees. Next to the sidewalk he is on is a street. Suburbs are below, in the foreground.

Hiwa K
Still from Pre-Image (Blind as the Mother Tongue), 2017
Single channel HD video, 16:9, color, sound, 18 minutes
Courtesy of Hiwa K, KOW, Berlin and Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan/Lucca
©Hiwa K.​

12:30 PM
Free with Museum admission (free to members)

Tour the exhibition Other Walks, Other Lines with Rory Padeken, associate curator and Kathryn Wade, curatorial associate. 

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One of our most elemental behaviors as physical beings—like eating, sleeping, and breathing—is walking. It’s an amateur activity. But what happens when we become explicit, inquisitive, and deliberate about what is as natural to us as eating and breathing? Walking is both universal and idiosyncratic: we all walk but choose different paths, peppered by different interactions and experiences.​