Night Stone Candice Lin
Night Stone by Candice Lin
29.09.2024
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Jameel Arts Centre presents Night Stone, a solo exhibition by American interdisciplinary artist Candice Lin which features her eponymous installation along with her latest creations: ceramic sculptures, textile works, and a site-specific mural. The show will be open to the public until 12 January 2025.

Night Stone was originally commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney and Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) in Melbourne. This immersive, large-scale installation explores the contemporary manganese trade between Australia and China, connecting it to the 18th-century commerce of sea cucumbers. Fascinated by the unique digestive and respiratory systems of sea cucumbers, Lin envisions their toxic interaction with manganese and the unexpected bodily transformations that ensue.

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Candice Lin, Night Stone, 2024. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney and MUMA with generous support from the Terra Foundation for American Art. Courtesy of the artist and François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles. Installation view, 24th Biennale of Sydney, ‘Ten Thousand Suns’, 2024, UNSW Galleries. Photo: Jacquie Manning.

About the artist

Candice Lin (b. 1979, Concord, MA, USA), who is based in Los Angeles (USA), earned a double BA in Visual Arts and Art Semiotics from Brown University (2001) and an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute (2004). Lin also teaches art at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Lin’s work is deeply rooted in exploring the histories of slavery and colonialism, with a focus on the politics of representation and issues related to race and gender. Her practice, which deploys installation, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, and video, often uncovers overlooked histories and marginalised narratives. Lin explores how natural materials and commodities gain value and circulate within global trade systems. Her art making process often incorporates living materials and processes, such as mould, mushrooms, and fermentation, resulting in dynamic, evolving works. A hallmark of Lin’s large-scale installations involves intricate systems where fluids like kombucha or cochineal-dyed water flow through tubes into various vessels or spill onto surfaces, forming large, organic stains.

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Candice Lin, Night Stone (detail), 2024. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney and MUMA with generous support from the Terra Foundation for American Art. Courtesy of the artist and François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles. Installation view, 24th Biennale of Sydney, ‘Ten Thousand Suns’, 2024, UNSW Galleries. Photo: Jacquie Manning.

Lin has showcased her art pieces in a plethora of exhibitions across the globe, including Hospitality for ghosts (solo) (Almeida & Dale, São Paulo, Brazil, 2023); 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (Italy, 2022); Sensing Nature: Momenta Biennale De L’Image, 17th edition (Montreal, Canada, 2021); Stressed Herms, Sweat, & Period Gas (solo) (ICA, New York University, Shanghai, China, 2020); I will return, and I will be millions (Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon, 2019); and many others.

Lin’s numerous accolades include the Arnaldo Pomodoro Sculpture Prize (Milan, Italy, 2023), the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (New York, USA, 2019), and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (New York, 2017). She has also been an Artist in Residence at such institutions as the Centre International des Récollets (Paris, France, 2017), the Delfina Foundation (London, UK, 2014), and Frankfurter Kunstverein (Germany, 2011), to name a few.

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Candice Lin, Night Stone (detail), 2024. Commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney and MUMA with generous support from the Terra Foundation for American Art. Courtesy of the artist and François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles. Installation view, 24th Biennale of Sydney, ‘Ten Thousand Suns’, 2024, UNSW Galleries. Photo: Jacquie Manning.

Lin’s artworks have been added to esteemed public collections such as Kröller-Müller Museum (Otterlo, The Netherlands), Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), and Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, USA).

To get more information about Night Stone, please visit the official web page of the exhibition.

While at the Jameel Arts Centre, you might be interested in viewing Samur by Zheng Bo featured in the latest edition of the Artist’s Garden.

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