Jordan Eagles: Centrifuge
Princeton University Art Museum, Bainbridge House, Princeton, NJ
Curated by Chris Newth

Jordan Eagles: Centrifuge features an array of artworks created both before and after the most recent revision to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) guidelines on blood donation, to challenge discrimination against and the stigmatization of LGBTQI+ individuals. The galleries highlight different facets of Eagles’s ongoing body of work, presenting distinct projects and thematic chapters, many combining blood with American pop-culture ephemera, historical documents, and new technologies to create multiple points of entry into these policy conversations. Blood functions as Eagles’s core artistic material and as a record of collaboration with those who donated it; he invites reflection on blood as a life- saving, sustaining, and unifying human element, and on the ways that policies rooted in identity and bias can fracture that bond.