University of Louisville
Cressman Center for Visual Arts

    100 E. Main Street
    Louisville, KY 40202
    (502) 852-0288
    Website: louisville.edu
    Hours:  Thursday-Friday, 11am-6pm Saturday, 11am-4pm

     

    Lost in the (re)Process

    Featuring Cassidy Meurer and Shachaf Polakow

    Dates: October 3- November 8,2025
    Events: Opening Reception October 3, 5 – 7pm

    This exhibition sheds light onto Louisville’s evolution in the 20th century through urban renewal practices via three modes; the first is an artistic intervention by Cassidy Meurer into the Urban Renewal Commission Photograph Collection, housed at UofL Archives & Special Collections. Appraisal survey photographs taken by the city’s Urban Renewal Commission are collaged together to reimagine the streets of downtown Louisville as they once existed, interrogating notions of progress. The second mode utilizes photographs of urban renewal demolitions made by photojournalists working for the Courier-Journal and Louisville Times from the Barry Bingham, Jr. Courier-Journal photograph collection, demonstrating the violence of these displacement practices and painting a backdrop for the city’s civil rights movement. The final mode brings us to the “now” of the narrative; video installations and 3D mapping by Shachaf Polakow bring the Downtown Louisville streets of today into the gallery space, squishing the temporal gaps between the archival material on display and our current reality.

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