Candice Lin, a Hard White Body

Lotte Arndt, Yesomi Umolu, Lotte Arndt

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English

Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
15 March 2019

Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Feminism & feminist theory; Social & cultural anthropology

This publication showcases A Hard White Body, an evolving project by Candice Lin presented at Bétonsalon—Centre d'art et de recherche, Paris; at Portikus, Frankfurt/Main; and at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago. A Hard White Body weaves together material and nonhuman histories alongside the life and work of three historical figures: American writer James Baldwin (1924–1987); French explorer and global traveler Jeanne Baret (1740–1807); and artist and naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717). Lin uses porcelain, a material whose history includes nineteenth-century imperial and scientific uses, to highlight fantasies surrounding whiteness and purity, only to subject her porcelain assemblages to pungent organic materials. She thus stages processes of contamination between organic and inorganic materials, creating an unstable sculptural ecosystem. In addition to an essay by curator Lotte Arndt that discusses the various iterations of Lin’s project, the publication features an essay by Rizvana Bradley; a conversation between Jih-Fei Cheng and Mel Y. Chen; and a conversation between the artist and C. Riley Snorton. These texts are accompanied by a visual essay by the artist and a selection of exhibition views.

By: Lotte Arndt, Yesomi Umolu
Edited by: Lotte Arndt
Imprint: Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 364g
ISBN: 9780692138366
ISBN 10: 0692138366
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 15 March 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lotte Arndt is a writer and curator. Yesomi Umolu is exhibitions curator at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago.