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Kandis Williams: A Surface

Kandis Williams: A Surface

Williams, Kandis
Jasper, Taylor
Harris, Cheryl I.

Paperback

General ArtIndividual Artists

Publisher Price: $50.00

ISBN10: 1935963333
ISBN13: 9781935963332
Publisher: Walker Art Center
Published: Jul 8 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 2.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.90
Language: English

The first museum survey for artist, writer and publisher Kandis Williams, whose cross-disciplinary practice delineates issues surrounding race, nationalism and authority

American artist Kandis Williams works across collage, sculpture, film, performance, writing, pedagogy and publishing. Her multidisciplinary practice leverages the experience of the body alongside personal and communal histories to explore and challenge notions of race, nationalism, authority and eroticism, among other subjects. Her meticulously compiled collages are densely layered, both in structure--through repetition of forms and figures--and in content, with an emphasis on politically loaded and libidinal images. Often inspired by history painting, these works are composed of images culled from magazines and archival texts, placed into an unsettling interplay. Williams considers these collages as a disintegration of photographic value into layered schematics. Similarly, Williams' performance practice explores coded social choreographies, emphasizing structural and systemic violence. In her performances, disembodied segments of text become collages, making up scripts for her performers. Through this process she proposes what she calls experimental pedagogy, a consumption of academic texts that have a non-discursive output, an affective output that mythifies--weaving what kinds of knowledge are immediately relatable to an individual with the creation of a paradigm of thought.

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