Kiyan Williams

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Kiyan Williams (b. 1991) lives and works in New York. In Williams’ elemental works the weather is both protagonist and collaborator. Using distinct formal and material vocabularies that gesture toward the architectural, ecological, and corporeal, they make sculptures and installations appearing in states of suspended decay, alluding to both archeological ruins and speculative futures. Their practice is a meditation on the unruliness of ruination, the precarity and malleability of symbols and structures of power, how objects and the ideologies embedded within them are transformed and made anew by an entanglement of human and natural forces. For Williams haptic intimacy is a primary mode of encounter. Their tactile works foreground materiality, process, touch, transformation, and embodied presence.

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