We're just ONE WEEK away from your first look at "Søren Solkær: Sort Sol"! We'll be opening our gallery doors on the evening of Friday, Dec. 8 for a special preview for Members and a chat with the photographer behind the exhibition. The installation will be open to all beginning Saturday, Dec. 9! Tickets for both days and beyond can be found at the link in our bio.
📷 Søren Solkær. Black Sun
#149, Rome, Italy. Image courtesy of the artist.
🐦⬛ For the first time in a U.S. museum, Søren Solkær's "Sort Sol" is a photographic series that studies the murmurations of starlings. The Danish term "sort sol” refers to these murmurations, the forms of which temporarily obscure the sun. A “murmuration” is the shifting shape formed by a flock in flight and derives from “murmur,” or the soft sound of the starlings’ flight calls and fluttering wings as they move together midair. Starling murmurations take myriad forms—from abstract to representational, and Solkær has captured this phenomenon wit...