Language, performativity, and process are preoccupations for many contemporary artists. The works in "Descriptive Acts" engage with both text and image, foregrounding complex and often fraught acts of description, narration, translation, and communication. The SFMOMA exhibition is presented in two consecutive configurations:
Act I (February 18 - April 15, 2012) Aurélien Froment, Dora García, Shilpa Gupta, John Smith, and Tris Vonna-Michell
Act II (April 21 - June 17, 2012) Anthony Discenza, Gupta, Lynn Marie Kirby and Li Xiaofei, Smith, and Vonna-Michell
