# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz55Tp1lbbX
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16044550-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2019-07-14T16:54:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

"As If: Alternative Histories From Then To Now" is on view in our Lab Gallery and Corridor. Wed-Sun 12pm-6pm | Thurs 12pm-8pm. The exhibition includes works in multiple mediums that offer examples of how we might reimagine historical narratives in order to contend with the traumas of contemporary life.
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In 1859, Harriet Tubman and John Brown incite a slave revolt that leads to the establishment of a black state in the Deep South called Nova Africa. In 1959, the socialist state of Nova Africa is on the verge of landing a group of explorers on Mars.
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Image: Terry Bisson, “Fire on the Mountain”, 1990, Published by Avon Books, New York, NY, Cover artwork by Joseph DeVito, Printed book, Collection of Ed Halter

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