Walker Art Center Presents Candice Lin's New Commission in Solo Museum Show
Candice Lin, A Hard White Body, A Soft White Worm, 2018. Courtesy the artist; Portikus, Frankfurt; and François Ghebaly, Los Angeles. Photo: Helena Schlichting
Los Angeles–based artist Candice Lin (b. 1979) investigates the legacies of colonialism, racism, and sexism by mapping the trade routes and material histories of a range of colonial goods. Often taking shape as DIY apparatuses, or what have been described as “flayed circulatory systems,” her multilayered and sensorial sculptural installations combine commodities such as sugar, cochineal, and tea into liquid concoctions that circumnavigate the space of the gallery. Lin’s sculptures manifest as tangible inquiries into histories of exoticism, Western degradation of and desire for the Other, and the logic and legacy of oppressive structures and systems.
For her solo museum show, co-organized by the Walker Art Center and the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts (CCVA), Lin has created a modular installation that responds to the space of the gallery at each institution, allowing the shape of the work to evolve over the course of its presentation. Working in ceramics, hand-dyed textiles, and animation, among other materials and processes, Lin offers visitors a richly tactile space for rest, relaxation, and critical reflection.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue documenting the artist’s research materials and studio process, copublished by the Walker and CCVA. Edited and with essays by Dan Byers and Victoria Sung, the book also includes a newly commissioned text by Julia Bryan-Wilson and Mel Y. Chen.
Candice Lin is on view at the Walker from August 5 through January 2, 2022, and at CCVA from February 4 through April 10, 2022.
About Candice Lin
Candice Lin is an interdisciplinary artist who works in installation, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, and video. Lin has received multiple awards and residencies, including the Banff Centre Artist Residency and the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, and has presented works at the Logan Center for the Arts, the New Museum, and the Hammer Museum, among others. Lin lives and works in Los Angeles.
Curators: Victoria Sung, associate curator, Visual Arts, Walker Art Center; and Dan Byers, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University