Research Catalog

Title

Candice Lin : a hard white body / Bétonsalon-Center for Art and Research & Villa Vassilieff, Portikus, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts ; edited by Lotte Arndt and Yesomi Umolu.

Author

Lin, Candice,

Publication

• Chicago, IL : Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts [2019]
• Chicago, IL : Distributed by University of Chicago Press
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Arndt, Lotte, 1979-
• Umolu, Yesomi,
• Bétonsalon--Centre d'art et de recherche (Paris, France), host institution.
• Portikus (Gallery), host institution.
• Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. host institution, publisher.

Description

159 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm

Summary

"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."--Provided by distributor.

Alternative Title

• Hard white body
• A hard white body = Un corps blanc exquis.
• A hard white body, a soft white worm.
• A hard white body, a porous slip.

Subject

• Lin, Candice > Exhibitions
• Lin, Candice > Themes, motives > Exhibitions
• Installations (Art) > Exhibitions
• Ecology in art > Exhibitions
• Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Installations (Art)

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Cover title.
• "This publication was produced in conjunction with the exhibitions A Hard White Body/Un corps blanc exquis (September 6-December 23, 2017), curated by Lotte Arndt and Lucas Morin and organized by Bétonsalon-Center for Art and Reserach & Villa Vassilieff, Paris; A Hard White Body, a Soft White Worm (February 10-April 8, 2018), curated by Lotte Arndt, Lucas Morin, and Philippe Pirotte and organized by Portikus, Frankfurt am Main; and A Hard White Body, a Porous Slip (September 14-October 28, 2018), curated by Yesomi Umolu and organized by Logan Center Exhibitions at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Elective affinities / Lotte Arndt -- A hard white body = Un corps blanc exquis : installation views -- Candice Lin and C. Riley Snorton in dialogue -- Candice Lin's minor ecologies / Rizvana Bradley -- A hard white body, a soft white worm : installation views -- A (post-)apocalyptic call to knowledge and action / Mel Y. Chen and Jih-Fei Cheng -- A hard white body, a porous slip : installation views -- The beloved / Candice Lin.

ISBN

• 9780692138366
• 0692138366

LCCN

99989442508

OCLC

• on1076801535
• 1076801535

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries