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EXHIBITION GRAPHICS | EXTERIOR GRAPHICS

Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Washington, DC

What Absence Is Made Of: A New Perspective on the Collection

October 2017 – August 2019

Christine Lefebvre Design has developed graphics for several exhibitions at the Hirshhorn, the Smithsonian’s contemporary art museum. These design packages included entrance graphics, didactic graphics, timelines, and labels, as well as exterior posters to promote the exhibitions, and in some cases, print and digital graphics such as event invitations. Graphics fit the subject of the individual exhibitions and adhered to the Hirshhorn’s institutional design style.

The title lockup for What Absence Is Made Of: A New Perspective on the Collection was a typographic meditation on the exhibition’s theme — What does absence look like? How can loss — of objects, of memory, of yourself — become a tool for artistic expression? Depending on vantage point, the letters, cut from reflective silver vinyl, would show your reflection, catch colors from surrounding objects … or vanish completely.

Credits: Exhibition Graphic Design by Christine Lefebvre Design. Exhibition Design and Curation by Hirshhorn. Graphics printed and exhibition installation by Hirshhorn.