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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 concrete and bronze sculpture in the size and shape of a sidewalk square sits in a gallery on a concrete floor.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: A concrete and bronze sculpture in the size and shape of a sidewalk square sits in a gallery on a concrete floor.

WILMER WILSON IV

liquidity crisis, 2021
Poured bronze and concrete
1 1/2 x 35 x 23 in.
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Here on Untrustworthy Ground, Wilmer Wilson IV continues his interrogation of the perceived value of materials, locations, gestures, and bodies. The artist’s recent castings respond specifically to the escalating public...
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Here on Untrustworthy Ground, Wilmer Wilson IV continues his interrogation of the perceived value of materials, locations, gestures, and bodies. The artist’s recent castings respond specifically to the escalating public conversations around monuments, and the debate over their removal from public view. To Wilson, the question of visibility or invisibility surrounding monuments is an inadequate solution to the problem of their legacy. Instead, the artist sees an opportunity for meaningful action in the transformative moment at which molten bronze begins to take on new form.

The work in Untrustworthy Ground memorializes pedestrian messages left in wet cement, where marks and deep impressions serve as found molds for Wilson IV’s bronze sculptures. Though stepped over and on hundreds or thousands of times each day and left to fade as the infrastructure ages with wear, these improvisational scrawlings represent an invisible collective who, through unsanctioned intervention into public space, have created an audience of readers.
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"Untrustworthy Ground," Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC 21 October 2021 - 4 December 2021.
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