#nari ward

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Nari Ward

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Nari Ward What's Going On, 2022 Shoelaces Courtesy the Artist and Lehmann Maupin. 

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“Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” at the New Museum, originally conceived by Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019).

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Scenes from Jessica Emmanuel’s performance amid Nari Ward’s sculptures at Jeffrey Deitch in Los Angeles. 

Ward’s floor piece is titled “Still Lives with Step Ladders,” 2021.

I have a short piece about the exhibition in the Essential Arts newsletter.

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Nari Ward

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In anticipation of the (now virtual) New York Caribbean Week and the annual Labor Day Parade, this August we're highlighting artworks in the Museum's collection that celebrate the presence of Caribbean culture and its diasporas.

Nari Ward’s layered and evocative sculptural practice takes shape from found, and often discarded, objects. Ward draws on Jamaican folk art traditions of repurposing and reimagining new forms from unexpected materials. In Crusader, a shopping cart acts as a chariot, an old chandelier as its prow, and a ring of used gas cans encircles a tall, curved cocoon made of interlaced plastic bags. The gas cans and applied tar extract point to oil as fuel for energy, and of global conflict and change. The shopping cart references social and material instability at home, given their use by unhoused people for mobile storage. Though Crusader sits silently when installed in a gallery, it was once navigated by the artist, poised within the shopping cart’s protective shell, through the streets of New York City, its subtle rattle competing with the sounds of Harlem. 

Starting September 9, come view Nari Ward’s video of Crusader, along with other videos from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection, in an upcoming outdoor screening series—stay tuned for details!

Posted by Carmen Hermo Nari Ward (Jamaican, born 1963). Crusader, 2005. Plastic bags, metal, shopping cart, trophy elements, tar extract, chandelier, plastic containers. 2008.52.1a-b. © artist or artist's estate  Installation view of 21: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Brooklyn Museum, 2008

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📸: FRIEZE London 2019 captured by Neil Andrews for @paddle8.