San Antonio’s HemisFair ’68 promised an idealized future — monumental architecture and technological innovation included — and a city purposefully transformed by the possibility of progress.
But before the massive event could open, certain things had to disappear: specifically, a 92-acre neighborhood southeast of downtown. Six decades later, we are still living with the consequences of that decision and its impact on the surrounding residential areas.
In an exhibition that opens this Thursday at Fl!ght Gallery, San Antonio-based artist Ann Enzminger explores the razing of the neighborhood by constructing pseudo-memorabilia, including maps, matchbooks, postcards and apparel, naming them after the structures that were erased in the name of progress.
This dark chapter of local history leads some to ponder whether the current day’s Project Marvel is visionary or simply an echo of past complexities that really amounted to failure?
Free, 5-9 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, noon-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday, Saturday. Oct. 1- Sunday, Oct. 31, Fl!ght Gallery, 112R Blue Star, (210) 872-2586, facebook.com/flightSA.
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