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Exhibition

Noodle Mountain Activation

August 31 2024 — August 30 2025 12 — 12:30PM
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Price: Free with admission, Free for members
Artist Colette Fu turns the handle to begin to close her pop-up book sculpture, Noodle Mountain, in front of a crowd of people.
Colette Fu, Noodle Mountain, 2024, pigment ink printing on canvas, corrugated board, gator board, vinyl, wood, metal, antique altar table, 114 x 134.5 x 87.5 inches, Courtesy of the Artist, photo: David Michael Howarth Photography

Activation dates are August 31, October 26, November 23, January 25, 2025, February 22, 2025, April 26, 2025, June 28, 2025, July 26, 2025, and August 30, 2025.

Join GFS Curatorial staff for a rare opening of the pop-up book Noodle Mountain by Colette Fu in the Domestic Arts Building, where a portion of the Slow Motion exhibition is located. Noodle Mountain contemplates deeply personal memories, as well as the intergenerational histories of place, labor, and diaspora that food can conjure. Don’t miss a special opportunity to see this complex sculpture be activated!

About the artist: Colette Fu (b. 1969, Princeton, NJ, she/her) is a Philadelphia-based artist who received her MFA in Fine Art Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2003, and soon after began devising complex compositions that incorporate photography and pop-up paper engineering. Her pop-up books are included in the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Library of Congress, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute, and many private and rare archive collections. Fu’s numerous awards and grants include a Forman Arts Initiative Art Works grant, Philadelphia Cultural Treasures grant, Joan Mitchell Painter’s & Sculptors Fellowship, the Meggendorfer Prize, Leeway Transformation Award, and a Fulbright Research Fellowship to China. She exhibits widely and teaches pop-up courses and community workshops internationally.

Program accessibility information available.

Slow Motion is made possible by generous exhibition support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Brooke Barrie Art Fund, NRG Energy, and Julie and Michael Nachamkin. Support is provided in part by the Atlantic Foundation, The New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a division of the NJ Department of State, and a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. Additional generous support is provided by Holman.

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