Atlanta was built as a railroad crossing, a transport link between port and mountain; it grew into a broad-minded center in a historically conservative milieu. If Atlanta is not known today as a crossroads, this exhibition endeavors to make it one—not as a filter through which to extract a contemporary “southern” identity, but as a place to mobilize a variety of experience, and ultimately to dismiss the real and imagined boundaries we impose upon our regional selves.
Daniel Fuller, Victoria Camblin, Aaron Levi Garvey, + Gia M. Hamilton, “On the Atlanta Art Biennial,” 2016