Allora & Calzadilla Specters of Noon

A beautiful presentation of a new suite of works made for the Menil Collection by Allora & Calzadilla

The Puerto Rico–based collaborative duo Allora & Calzadilla created Specters of Noon as a group of seven large-scale works specifically for the Menil Collection. The ensemble is orchestrated around the idea of solar noon, a notion derived from Surrealist texts by Caillois, Césaire, and others that probe the transcultural mythology of noon—a time when shadows vanish and delirious visions mo...