"In an era when contemporary culture tends to privilege immediacy, the archive offers resistance by inviting slowness, friction, and a longer view. In this three-part series, Document turns to curators Ruba Katrib, Jovanna Venegas, and Drew Sawyer, photographed on location, wearing Vowels, the brand that finds its own voice through archival research. Each of these curators places the archive at the center of their practice."
"Though an art history major, his approach to academia and curation takes cues from anthropology, an element that invites audiences to consider the broader impact of art on humanity. Since leaving the Brooklyn Museum-where he staged the much-lauded Copy Machine Manifestoes: Artists Who Make Zines in 2023-he joined the Whitney Museum of Art as its Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography."
Drew Sawyer serves as Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art and co-curates the 2026 Whitney Biennial with Marcela Guerrero. His practice treats archives as living organisms that resist contemporary immediacy by inviting slowness, friction, and a longer view. His background in art history with anthropological approaches encourages consideration of art's broader impact on humanity. After staging Copy Machine Manifestoes: Artists Who Make Zines at the Brooklyn Museum in 2023, he balances honoring object authenticity with reinterpreting archival meaning amid shifting perspectives, acknowledging archival fragility and incompleteness.
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