Price: $10 Grounds for Sculpture Members, $35 General
Join the Grounds for Sculpture Curatorial staff at the Slow Motion exhibition as they light select candles of Sandy Williams IV’s sculpture The Wax Monuments and lead a slow looking conversation. The artwork is a provocation that invites people to exercise agency and control over public symbols that are typically deemed “permanent” and “untouchable.” The lighting will create space for personal interpretation and conversation, inviting participants to engage openly about select topics.
Sandy Williams IV (b. 1992, Belleville, NJ, they/them) is an artist and educator whose work generates moments of communal catharsis. Based in Richmond, VA, their conceptual practice uses time itself as a material and aims to unfold the hidden legacies of public spaces. Through ephemeral, malleable, and collaborative public memorials, Williams’ work unsettles popular colonial logics of permanence, uniformity, and displacement. Williams’ practice is deeply interdisciplinary, and carefully layers contextual research, communal activity, collaboration, civic action, and performance.
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Major support has been provided to Grounds for Sculpture for Slow Motion by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Brooke Barrie Art Fund, NRG Energy, and Julie and Michael Nachamkin. Additional support has been provided by the Atlantic Foundation, Holman, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts and New Jersey Department of State.