Candice Lin: Seeping, Rotting, Resting, Weeping

Candice Lin's installation explores the upheavals of 2020, combining hand-dyed indigo textiles, plaster sculptures, ceramics, and a hallucinogenic video. It addresses anxiety, isolation, fear, and anger, emphasizing touch, intimacy, and collective questioning of our precarious present and future. Texts explore Lins innovative use of materials and mediums, and an annotated selection of her past exhibitions provides context.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 168 pages
Publication date: 21 September 2021
Publisher: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

Candice Lin's immersive installation delves into the tumultuous events of 2020, weaving together intricate material histories and speculative multispecies narratives. This captivating book documents the artist's creation of a new body of work during the COVID-19 pandemic, where Lin explores the legacies of colonialism by tracing the material trajectories of goods traversing global trade routes. For her project at the Walker Art Center and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Lin brings together a diverse range of elements, including hand-dyed indigo textiles, plaster sculptures inviting visitor interaction, large-scale ceramics influenced by Chinese tomb guardians, and a mesmerizing video featuring dancing cats and spam texts. Together, these multifaceted components create a powerful installation that addresses the profound anxiety, isolation, fear, and anger experienced during this tragic year of pandemic and social upheaval. Texts delve into Lin's innovative use of materials and mediums, while an illustrated plates section showcases the artist's meticulous research, creation, and installation process. An annotated selection of Lin's major past exhibitions provides valuable context for the works she has produced over the past decade.

Weight: 680g
Dimension: 300 x 229 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781735230511
Edition number: Annotated ed