Newswise — Throughout the month of September Temple Gallery at Temple University will be filled with a collection of recorded moments of silence expressed in commemoration of September 11, 2001. These silences, collected from the past ten years range from President Obama’s recent visit to Ground Zero following the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, to a woman’s private moment of silence recorded alone in her Missouri bedroom for the families whose loved ones died on September 11.
Gathered from newsreels, library collections, and the Internet, this selection of ten silences is a quiet history of the nation’s solidarity and remembrance of 9/11.
Robert Blackson, Director of Temple Gallery at Tyler School of Art considers this exhibition a fitting tribute to the nation’s loss and rebuilding.
“For centuries artists have struggled to represent renewal. Amongst the many tributes made by artists and individuals in commemoration of 9/11, the ones I have found most poignant are those ephemeral and communal gestures of quiet solidarity,” Blackson said.
This exhibition was made possible through the research of Olivia Menta and Tyler School of Art’s Graduate Art History Organization.
Temple Gallery is the contemporary art gallery at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. Temple Gallery provides a visual context to inform and inspire public discussions of contemporary social concern. These discussions are collaboratively developed to address issues of local purpose and international significance.
A Decade of Silences will be audible in the gallery from September 1 – September 30, 2011. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday 11-6 and by appointment.
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