What Kind of City?
A Manual for Social Change
The Whitworth, Manchester, UK, 2021
The Whitworth presented the first major UK presentation of multiple works of Suzanne Lacy. In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, What kind of city? was conceived with the artist as a project that is more than an exhibition, one that takes key works with relevance to our current context and used them to convene people in order to start new initiatives that will actively help rebuild the city of Manchester. Working around fundamental themes such as youth agency, borders, social cohesion, and work prospects for older women, the exhibition was designed to operate as an evolving manual for how we create equitable transformation. This underpinned a new direction of travel for the Whitworth, as an institution that actively works for and with people across the city, one that begins with the question: after Covid, what kind of city can we make together? The exhibition ran from November 26 2021 – April 10 2022. (text source)