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WILMER WILSON IV: Untrustworthy Ground

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21 October - 4 December 2021
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: A close up of two bronze and concrete sculptures resting on top of one another.A concrete and bronz sculpture in the size and shape of a sidewalk square sits in a gallery on a concrete floor

WILMER WILSON IV

pristine window display, 2021
Poured bronze and concrete
1 1/2 x 34 3/4 x 36 in.
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The titles in Untrustworthy Ground record fragments of text left in wet concrete by an anonymous public. Whether philosophical or profane, the artist has protected and amplified each phrase equally...
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The titles in Untrustworthy Ground record fragments of text left in wet concrete by an anonymous public. Whether philosophical or profane, the artist has protected and amplified each phrase equally by filling their impressions with molten bronze. Earlier series exhibit a similarly paradoxical, violent yet careful application of metal. In his 2019 show at Susan Inglett Gallery, Slim, You don't got the Juice!, Wilson IV used thousands of staples to affix printed images culled from street advertisements for local Philly businesses to large sheets of plywood. The staples, like the bronze, simultaneously obscured and protected, defaced and amplified an anonymous black subject.

In both bodies of work, construction materials used to control movement (plywood hoarding to prevent entry, concrete barricades to regulate passage), become a platform for the very voices they are meant to contain.
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"Untrustworthy Ground," Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC 21 October 2021 - 4 December 2021.
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