What goes up must come down

What goes up must come down is a large-scale light sculpture that celebrates people’s right to peacefully protest by using the barricade as a symbol of global resistance. A collaboration with Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares, the piece is a part of a series of works in which the artists explore the sculptural and symbolic potential of standard steel barricades. Designed to seamlessly blend into the landscape, the use of illumination highlights the ubiquitous nature of these barricades on our city streets, especially as an architecture of control in protests. In this latest iteration for the Lowe Art Museum, the artists recreate how activists subvert the use of police barricades into repurposed ladders.