The Back Room: How the West Was Won
This week: Frieze L.A. in a flash, rising star Kandis Williams on the move, museums still in pandemic-induced peril, and much more.
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Meet Artist Kandis Williams, Whose Poetic Work Has a Sharp, Cerebral, and Radically Political Edge
Kandis Williams. Photo: Dicko Chan, 2018. At the center of Kandis Williams’s first solo institutional show, “A Field,” on view at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Institute for Contemporary Art through August 1, a full-sized greenhouse is shrouded in sculptures of exotic plants. Inside, the artist’s 2020 video, Annexation Tango, depicts a dancer’s body floating over aerial shots of Virginia farms and California forest fires. Superimposing a dance born in the spiritual traditions ...
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