Ace Air: Kandis Williams
Program: 40 Years / 40 Nights (Ace AIR)
Location: Ace Hotel Los Angeles
Date of Stay: 7/10/16
Artist: Kandis Williams
Program: 40 Years / 40 Nights (Ace AIR)
Location: Ace Hotel Los Angeles
Date of Stay: 7/10/16
Artist: Kandis Williams
During a night’s stay at Ace Hotel DTLA, Kandis Williams created a black + white reader titled Culture of Fuccboi. The final PDF is comprised of notebook and book scans, plus photos of drawings on bedsheets.
Kandis Williams produces large-scale black and white collages that track a deeply personal on-going exploration of the philosophical constructs of difference as it manifests in structural racism, nationalism, authority and governance, eroticism, and violence. Using the mechanics of collage as a deliberate metaphor for violence, Williams makes repetitive and idiosyncratic forms, fitted from content around specific incidents of sociological chaos. Her works are often set against monochromatic gradients, suggestive of deep space and the occurrence of these incidents over time, compounding a horror and fascination with both physical and ideological difference. Williams implicates both herself and the audience in the intoxication of commodity-fetishism, dramatizing the mind’s struggle for truth in moral judgment.
An Artists in Residence program sprang up at our New York property in 2014 and this year, we’re taking the concept on tour with our friends at Printed Matter, Inc. 40 Years / 40 Nights celebrates the institution’s 40th year by showcasing a new crop of 40 artists from around the world across 2016.
Printed Matter, Inc. is an independent 501©(3) non-profit organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists’ books and other artists’ publications. If in NYC, you can visit Printed Matter, Inc. itself at 231 11th Avenue. You can support Printed Matter in their 40th year by becoming a member today.
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