that of San Francisco Minnesota Street Project (MSP) opened in March 2016 on the grounds of three warehouses – two spaces for galleries located at 1275 Minnesota Street and 1150 25th Street and one housing the Studio Program at 1240 Minnesota Street with 50 artist studios. Then, when the nearby Thatcher’s Gourmet Popcorn factory took a stake in December 2022, the MSP Foundation, created in October 2019 acquired the huge space and turned it into a video projection gallery.
The inaugural exhibition in the new space, co-presented with the Altman Siegel Gallery, opened on May 11 and will be on view until June 30. The exhibition features Richard Mosse’s large-screen multi-channel video installation, Shattered Specter (2022) from the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts (SFMOMA).
Previously shown in London and Melbourne, Shattered Specter focuses on the ecological devastation caused by deforestation in the Amazon, encouraged by former Brazilian President Jair Bolsanaro.
The 74-minute video installation features black and white scenes of slaughterhouses, men burning and chopping down trees, illegal gold mining, and the activism of indigenous communities impacted by these realities. Aerial shots show the vast expanses of forest that have been cleared.
During the opening, Minnesota Street Project Foundation Director Rachel Sample spoke about hopes for the future of the organization, calling for more collaborative projects like Mosse’s and highlighting how a space with flexibility is essential to the development of artists.
“We can do things that seemingly don’t fit in other places, but are interesting, exciting, and relevant to the community,” Sample said, adding that “being able to provide museum-quality experiences to the community for free is never seen”. .”
“It’s a new space for San Francisco and the arts community,” Moses said at the opening. “For all of us who make ambitious videos, it’s hard to find spaces where we can project features as strong and as big as we want them to be.”
