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AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides), a collective that connects with border communities to address issues of immigration with craft, displays ceramics made at the border as part of the Hammer Museum's 'Made in L.A.' biennial. ....
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 of enslaved Africans over two sites that have been respectively tilled and extinguished by incarcerated people, the seemingly disparate footage illustrates a recurring theme in Williams’s recent bodies of work: the enduring link between the cultivation of plant life in the New World and forced labor. ....