Sentenced: Architecture and Human Rights

sentenced: architecture and human rights
carriage house gallery, brown university / spring 2017

Sentenced was an exhibition of works on paper made by incarcerated men in the San Francisco area who, at the time, were held in solitary confinement.  Some submissions were detailed and skilled axonometric view of solitary cells, while others attempted to capture the state of mind of solitary.  All of them were profoundly affecting, expressing hopelessness, anger and despair.  One wall included architectural plans for an execution chamber at Ely State Prison in Nevada, with "before" and "after" photographs of the project during and after construction.  The exhibition included a full-scale mock-up of a solitary confinement cell produced by Black and Pink Boston and audio testimony about the experience of solitary confinement.  

The artwork in this exhibition was loaned by Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility, a national organization that connects design work to social, political and environmental justice issues. 

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"Solitary Confinement on Exhibit at New Providence Exhibit," Rhode Island NPR (March 9, 2017).