{"id":10946,"date":"2021-04-06T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=10946"},"modified":"2021-04-08T16:01:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T20:01:37","slug":"a-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/a-field\/","title":{"rendered":"A Field"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Field<\/em> by Kandis Williams (installation view)
at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University; 2020. Photo by David Hale. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

COLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kandis Williams: A Field<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, USA
6 November 2020-1 August 2021<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kandis Williams: A Field<\/em> features new, site-responsive commissions by Kandis Williams, a Los Angeles-based artist and founder of CASSANDRA PRESS, an artist-run publishing and educational platform centered on femme-driven activism and Black scholarship. Through a combination of sculpture, video, and installation, A Field<\/em> addresses the regimes of control associated with Black labor, including at prison farms in Virginia. The exhibition transforms the ICA\u2019s top-floor gallery into a horticultural environment filled with plant sculptures, drawing connections between the oppression of Black people in America and the world of non-human plant life, and exploring the ways in which people, much like the crops they cultivate, can be subject to exploitation and control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The centerpiece of A Field<\/em> is a new video, Annexation Tango<\/em> (2020), produced on-site in Virginia and Los Angeles and supplemented with green screen videography and found footage. The fields that appear as backgrounds were formerly those of the Lorton Reformatory and the Virginia State Prison Farm, two facilities where incarcerated people were made to work as a condition of their sentences. In Williams\u2019s aerial footage, several prison facilities appear among plantation-style homes, open fields, and pastures, providing an uncanny convergence of past and present architectures of oppression. Superimposed onto this landscape is dancer Roderick George performing a solo tango\u2014a dance and musical form originally introduced to Argentina by Africans brought to the Americas via the transatlantic slave trade. The video also incorporates footage from the ongoing California wildfires as a symbol both of the ways people limit their freedom through environmentally destructive activity as well as the urgency of resistance and revolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Field<\/em> (detail) by Kandis Williams
Photo by Paul Salveson. Courtesy of the artist and Night Gallery, Los Angeles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In A Field<\/em>, Williams fills the gallery with photographic collages affixed to the wire forms of monsteras, palms, banana trees, and vines. The collages depict laboring bodies in action, including archival photographs of chain gangs on Mississippi farms; images from vintage pornographic magazines; and depictions of dancers performing the Urugayan tango, a choreography conscripted from workers\u2019 traditions. In these overlapping images, a schema is revealed in the relations between labor and performance, performance and sexualization, sexualization and labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kandis Williams: A Field<\/em> is curated by ICA Associate Curator Amber Esseiva and is the third iteration of “Provocations”, an annual commission series that takes its name from architect Steven Holl\u2019s design intention for the ICA\u2019s soaring True Farr Luck Gallery, which he calls \u201ca provocation for artists to engage.\u201d Past Provocations have featured new commissions by Rashid Johnson (2018) and Guadalupe Maravilla (2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(text adapted from the gallery’s press materials)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COLLAGE ON VIEW Kandis Williams: A Field at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, USA6 November 2020-1 August 2021 Kandis Williams: A Field features new, site-responsive commissions by Kandis Williams, a Los Angeles-based artist…<\/p>\n

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