The MIT-based design practice and American visual artist present a collaborative exhibition during the 12th annual Detroit Month of Design (on view until 17 December 2022)
Ancient Entanglements Installation by Sanford Biggers produced in collaboration with Matter Design at Wasserman Projects, Detoit.At Wasserman Projects, an experimental art space in Detroit, Michigan, a megalithic concrete
teeters in the bare-bones warehouse. The work is in conversation with an installation of suspended wood objects and gradient-dyed knotted rope, hung just so their heights reflect the relative distances of the stars in the constellation Orion to Earth.
Biggers’ multifaceted practice routinely challenges preconceived ways of looking at history and art itself by juxtaposing cultural meanings. At the American Academy, he says, he ‘started to engage with a body of work that was coming out of my interest in ruins.’ Commonly called ‘spolia’ in an architectural context, Biggers points out that these ‘leftover and ruined pieces’ sometimes also included
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