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The Quiet in the Land | The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

Created in conjunction with a 1998 exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, "The Quiet in the Land" documents an unorthodox artist residency while also painting a picture of the Christian sect the Shakers, known for practices of celibacy, communal living, pacifism, shared property, and gender and racial equality, along with simple living, architecture, music, and furniture design. In 1996, curator France Morin invited ten artists to live, work, and worship in the only remaining active Shaker community, located in Sabbathday Lake, Maine. In agreeing to host the artists, the Shakers insisted that the artists participate in the village’s daily activities. The residency yielded a dynamic body of works featured in the exhibition "The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art, and the Shakers," curated by Morin and presented at the ICA in 1998. According to Morin, the works gathered in “The Quiet in the Land” aimed “to explore the complex relationship between artistic practice and everyday life, as well as to define the spiritual impetus of the creative act.” In 2025, the ICA is revisiting the 1998 exhibition with a new exhibition, Believers: Artists and the Shakers, which reunites a core group of artworks from that exhibition alongside more recent works to consider how contemporary artists derive inspiration from the utopian community’s vital experience as “ordinary people attempting to live an extraordinary life.”