Whitney Biennial 2026

To produce Civic Views, Emilio Martínez Poppe visited more than twenty Philadelphia government agencies, interviewed employees, and took multiple photographs of the views from their office windows, which he has reproduced at a one-to-one scaleand installed at a height that replicates the experience of looking out of each window. The project was inspired in part by the oldest surviving photograph in the United States, taken in 1839 by a worker at the US Mint in Philadelphia from an office window.