WATCH NOW | Created for the Whitney Biennial’s inaugural Hyundai Terrace Commission, artist Torkwase Dyson describes the process of bringing her monumental installation to life in a new video feature.
A space for meditation, interaction, and play, Torkwase Dyson’s Liquid Shadows, Solid Dreams (A Monastic Playground), 2024, serves as a symbol of ecology, belonging, and personal history for those who navigate its many passageways and resting places. Dyson invites visitors to experience the tactile, geometric sculpture within the shifting conditions of the Whitney’s outdoor terrace as it evolves within its environment, a prompt that speaks to the artist’s conviction that liberation can be found at every register of movement: “Freedom is an ongoing spatial question of motion and imagination.”
Watch the full video here, or on our website (link in bio). Torkwase Dyson’s Liquid Shadows, Solid Dreams (A Monastic Playground) is on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art through February 9, 2025. Video: Hyundai Art Lab.
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SUMMER SALE | GRAY’s summer book sale is now live through August 31. All publications available via our website are 30% off, with the discount applied at checkout. With over 60 books published throughout GRAY’s exhibition history, our collection features a wide assortment of catalogues and monographs, inviting readers to immerse themselves in our artists’ practices by way of detailed illustrations, photographs, and essays by influential curators, critics, artists, and scholars.
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ON VIEW | For the 2024 edition of #ArtBaselUnlimited, Torkwase Dyson debuts “Errantry” (2024), a monumental new sculptural installation that deploys geometric forms to create an interactive, architectural space.
In this work, Dyson references histories of enslavement and architecture of dispossession to further examine human geography and propose spatial liberation strategies within a rubric Dyson calls Black Compositional Thought.
For Dyson, the intertwining of abstraction and Blackness is a central philosophical concern that came out of an interest in public infrastructure. For the Whitney Biennial, her site-specific installation demonstrates the artists’ intertwining of abstraction and Blackness, which is a central philosophical concern that came out of an interest in public infrastructure.
Torkwase Dyson’s “Errantry” (2024) is co-presented by GRAY and Pace. View the installation through June 16 in booth U7.
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NEWS | Tomorrow, GRAY will be announcing representation of its newest artist… Stay tuned for this exciting reveal tomorrow morning!
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