Open Call: Kiyan Williams

JUN 19 – AUG 25, 2019
A site-specific wall work using soil to paint a portrait of America and the exploitation of Black bodies and land
Kiyan Williams, Meditation on the Making of America, 2019. Performance, soil, canvas, wood panels. Photo: Lily Wan.
An installation photo of Kiyan Williams's commission for Open Call
Kiyan Williams, Meditation on the Making of America, 2019. Performance, soil, canvas, wood panels. Photo: Lily Wan.

About this commission

In Meditation on the Making of America, Kiyan Williams considers the relationship between embodied and geographic displacement and dispossession, with the African Diaspora as a point of departure. Using soil as a primary material, the artist paints a portrait of America that evokes the violent extraction and exploitation of Black bodies and land.
Biography
Kiyan Williams is a multidisciplinary artist residing in Manhattan who creates performance, sculpture, and video informed by autoethnography, archival research, and Black queer feminist ecology.

Location and dates

This event takes place in Level 2 Gallery.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Paul Hamilton.