Sweet to Tongue and Sound to Eye

Public commission, Red Bull Arts Detroit.
Part of Standing Still, Lying Down, As If group exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD).

Detroit, 2018

Curated by Ouliana Ermolova.
Painted by Nick Pizana, Patrick Delloro, and Ramen One. Dimensions: 2000 sq-ft approximately


Sourcing an image from Diego Rivera’s iconic Detroit Industry Murals located at the Detroit Institute of Art, Iman Raad has focused on one of the most negligible elements from Rivera’s frescoes: the fruits and vegtable. While Detroit’s industrial landscape has dramatically changed since the times of Rivera, Raad pursuits the bowl of fruit as cultural constant – symbol of life and pleasure. Through playful imitations of an overprint (a common glitch in print production) Raad signals awareness of materiality and reality of "Image" – quality of the image substrate and the image making history.

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Images courtesy Red Bull Arts Detroit, MOCAD, and Iman Raad