A half-hour walk from the museum is The Momentary, an extension of Crystal Bridges, which is housed within a decommissioned cheese factory and currently features two immersive exhibitions: Mystic Parallax by multidisciplinary artist Awol Erizku and Dark Waters by photographer Kristine Potter.
Mystic Parallax’s rich and exciting imagery blends Erikzu’s studio practice with the artists’ work, which was made as an in-demand editorial photographer. It features his conceptual portraits of leading Black cultural figures, such as Amanda Gorman, Michael B. Jordan, Pharrell Williams, and Solange. As Erizku has said, “It’s important for me to create confident, powerful, downright regal images of Black people.”
Kristine Potter’s haunting Dark Waters series reflects on the “’Southern Gothic’ landscape as evoked in the popular imagination of “murder ballads” from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.”
Aside from certain special exhibitions, Crystal Bridges entry is always free and their walking and biking trails and grounds are open from sunup to sunset which means that you can visit James Turrell’s Skyspace as it was meant to be viewed, either at dawn or sunset.
Below: Image gallery from Awol Erikzu’s ‘Mystic Parallax’ exhibition at The Momentary, followed by works found inside the Crystal Bridges Museum.
