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The New Bend – Staging – Esse
Installation view, ‘The New Bend,’ Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, 2022.
© Hauser & Wirth
Courtesy Hauser &
Wirth Photo: Jeff McLane
Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
27 October–30 December 2022
So much has changed. So much is changing. So much still needs to change. Art history today looks nothing like what I have studied thirty years ago—the white cis-male benchmark that implicitly filtered everything we saw and thought; the institutional conservativism that safeguarded it. What back then seemed unquestionably cohesive appears, today, fragmented. What seemed whole is now shattered. 

How to look. When to speak. What to say? 

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