WHITNEY BIENNIAL 2024: EVEN BETTER THAN THE REAL THING MAR 20–AUG 11, 2024
My favorite Biennial 2024 pieces are several paintings, including the one pictured on this blog, 'Red Over Morning Sea,' by Suzanne Jackson. I also really liked an amber-based sculpture, ‘Paloma Blanca Deja Volar/White Dove Let us Fly’ by Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, a neon poem by Demian DinéYazhi’, a film by Sharon Hayes, two large scale prints of 'AI Holly' by Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, a painting from the ‘Whales Fucking’ series by Mary Lovelace O’Neal's, an installation titled ‘Uŋziwoslal Wašičuta’ (a Lakota phrase meaning “the fat-taker’s world is upside down”) by Cannupa Hanska Luger, and two sculptures ‘Stop Gap’ and ‘How Many Ways Can You Disappear,’ by Karyn Olivier.
‘...The exhibition’s subtitle, 'Even Better Than the Real Thing,' acknowledges that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is complicating our understanding of what is real, and rhetoric around gender and authenticity is being used politically and legally to perpetuate transphobia and restrict bodily autonomy. These developments are part of a long history of deeming people of marginalized race, gender, and ability as subhuman—less than real. In making this exhibition, we committed to amplifying the voices of artists who are confronting these legacies, and to providing a space where difficult ideas can be engaged and considered...' Go and see it.
