Join GFS Curatorial staff on the closing day of the Slow Motion exhibition for this drop-in program as we melt the candles of Sandy Williams IV’s sculpture, The Wax Monuments. Learn more about the exhibition and take a moment for meditation and self-reflection to ask: How can we remake our relationship with monuments?
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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Slow Motion is made possible by generous exhibition support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Brooke Barrie Art Fund, NRG Energy, and Julie and Michael Nachamkin. Support is provided in part by the Atlantic Foundation, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, New Jersey Department of State. Additional generous support is provided by Holman.
