Photographic Exhibition & Screening by Eric Overton (January 26th Friday)

Join the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art this Friday evening as they premiere Monument, their newest exhibition by Utah photographer Eric Overton. There will also be a brief special preview screening of a film by Overton, which will be held in the museum auditorium at 8pm.

The battle for wilderness is often portrayed as a land grab, a fight over barbed wire and resource allocation and actual locations we can see from space. And while a map is helpful when you're carving things up, it is like offering coordinates to your heart. Getting there does not explain what happens there.

The photographs in Monument mark the entry into that mystery. In the accompanying work-in-progress film, these stills transform into moving images, into a portrait of our physical experience in nature — a profound and political statement of what's at stake, regardless of which side of the fence one shouts from.

* a suggested donation of $5 is appreciated for admission