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Drawing primarily from SFMOMA's collection, this exhibition considers themes particularly relevant in our world today: belonging and exile, mobility and immobility, and navigation and translation among and between objects, people, and places. The title is inspired by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin, who was fascinated by 19th-century Parisian shopping arcades, or passages, for their uncertain status between private and public, interior and exterior, production and consumption. The artists included here are keenly interested in producing passages — from past to present, fact to fiction, site to nonsite, and back again. Among a wide-ranging selection of paintings, photographs, sculptures, drawings, and installations, the exhibition’s highlights include works by Tacita Dean, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Pierre Huyghe, Emily Jacir, Julie Mehretu, and Luc Tuymans.
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