Sarah Anne Johnson at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sarah Anne Johnson’s "House on Fire" (2009) is included in the group exhibition Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, on view from September 18, 2018 through January 6, 2019.

 

"House on Fire" is from Johnson's series of the same title, which delves into the artist's family history. In the mid-1950s, Johnson's grandmother was an unwitting perticipant in experiments at the Allan Memorial Institute at McGill University, where she was subjected to drug-induced sleep, shock therapy, and doses of LSD. House on Fire explores both the moral and political implications of these events, and their echoes as a theme in Johnson's personal life.

 

Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy is the first major exhibition to tackle the perennially provocative topic of conspiracy. The works on view span more than fifty years, artists have explored the hidden operations of power and the symbiotic suspicion between the government and its citizens that haunts Western democracies.

 

For more information, please visit the museum’s website.

September 18, 2018