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The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD)

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SANFORD BIGGERS - SUBJECTIVE COSMOLOGY Sanford Biggers,  Shatter , 2015 production still. Courtesy of the artist. For his solo exhibition  Subjective Cosmology , Sanford Biggers will create an immersive interactive experience throughout  MOCAD , incorporating video installation, visual art objects, and new media. Imagined as an unseen world made visible, the exhibition gives physical form to hidden landscapes where the past, present, and future synergized into an atemporal experience. Subjective Cosmology can be seen as the link between his three—part film suite  Shuffle, Shake, Shatter . Shuffle, Shake, Shatter  is an ambitious three-part film/video suite that explores the formation and dissolution of identity through the journey and actions of an un-named main character. With the completion of his journey, he will have also retraced the North Atlantic Slave Trade route, albeit abstractly, from Europe to the Americas and finally Africa. Throughout his journey he grapples