Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art
Dates
13.02.2024 | 26.05.2024
Location
Barbican Art Gallery, London
The Artist
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Sanford Biggers
Sanford Biggers (Los Angeles, 1970) lives and works in New York, US.
Biggers’ practice encompasses a range of mediums including films, installations, video, drawing, sculpture and performance. Through these various mediums, the artist challenges our given relationships to history with its established symbols and beliefs, combining Afro-American traditions and aesthetics with Japanese symbolism, Central European references with contemporary urban experiences and Italian technique with the rhythms of Hip Hop music.