A Vision of Design That Transcends Empire’s Grid
“I left Reverberations not with the sense of discovery, but of recognition — of seeing with force and clarity what had long been obscured by the bright glare of European modernism. From the dense geometries of Navajo weaving to the code-switched semiotics of Gibson’s sculpture, the show dismantles the myth of a singular design lineage and replaces it with something both more accurate and more arresting: A world in which design has always been plural, relational, and situated. If modernism once flattened difference in the name of universality, Reverberations redraws the map entirely — a map where center and edge are no longer fixed, but continuously in motion.”