On 25 September 2024, Jameel Arts Centre invites everyone to join a talk with American interdisciplinary artist Candice Lin. This event marks the launch of Night Stone, her solo exhibition featuring the eponymous installation that will be on display from 26 September 2024 to 12 January 2025. Originally commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney and Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) in Melbourne, this installation is accompanied by new ceramic sculptures, textile pieces, and a site-specific mural.
In a conversation with Art Jameel’s Lucas Morin (Exhibitions Curator) and Nora Razian (Head of Exhibitions), Lin will discuss her work on the contemporary manganese trade between Australia and China to the 18th-century commerce of sea cucumbers. Fascinated with these creatures’ unique digestive and respiratory systems, the artist imagines and depicts their toxic interaction with manganese leading to unexpected bodily transformations.
The conversation with Lin will take place in the Jameel Arts Centre’s lobby and will last from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM. To get more information about the event, please visit its official web page.
About the artist
Candice Lin (b. 1979), who resides in Los Angeles (USA), earned a double BA in Visual Arts and Art Semiotics from Brown University (USA) in 2001 and pursued her education at the San Francisco Art Institute, from which she graduated in 2004 with an MFA in New Genres.
Deeply interested in the history of slavery and the cultural implications of colonialism, in her practice encompassing installation, sculpture, drawing, ceramics, and video, Lin focuses on the politics of representation and issues of race and gender. Her artworks uncover forgotten histories and spotlight practices that have been marginalised or discredited.
Lin explores how specific natural materials and goods acquire value and how they circulate through global trade networks. Her thought-provoking art pieces often incorporate living and organic materials and processes including, for example, mould, mushrooms, and fermentation. Some of Lin’s most notable creations are large-scale installations of intricate systems in which fluids like kombucha or cochineal-dyed water are channelled through tubes connecting an assortment of vessels or diverted to a surface where they pool into large stains.
In addition, while at the Jameel Arts Centre, you might be interested in having a look at Samur, Chinese artist Zheng Bo’s work featured in the latest edition of the Artist’s Garden.
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