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Jesse Krimes: Corrections

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Jesse Krimes: Corrections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028

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Jesse Krimes, Apokaluptein:16389067, 2010–2013. Cotton sheets, ink, hair gel, graphite, gouache. Overall: 15 x 40 ft (4.6 x 12.2 m). Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery.

Made over the course of his six-year incarceration and reflecting the ingenuity of an artist working without access to traditional materials, Jesse Krimes’s (2020 Awardee) immersive installations are presented alongside nineteenth-century photographs from The Met collection by the French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon, raising questions about the perceived neutrality of our systems of identification and the hierarchies of social imbalance they create and reinscribe.

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Mass Incarceration Quilt Series

Jesse Krimes Jesse Krimes is a Philadelphia based artist, curator and advocate whose work explores how
contemporary media shapes and reinforces societal mechanisms of power and control, with a particular focus on criminal and racial justice.

Jesse Krimes