A glimpse into this year's Whitney Biennial.
The Biennial’s subtitle, “Quiet as It’s Kept,” is similarly varied in its origins, alluding at once to the first line of Toni Morrison’scurated by the artist David Hammons in 2002.
On the museum’s sixth floor, the visitor is immediately confronted by two large canvases by Denyse Thomasos , each animated by vigorous cross-hatching. While in one of the paintings,Displaced Burial / Burial at Gorée , leans headlong into chaos: Its name refers to the Senegalese Island of Gorée, a notable stop in the slave trade. “During my research on slavery, I encountered a doctor’s journal that recorded in great detail the head sizes of adults and infants, the dimensions of their necks and their bodies, the quality of their teeth,” the Trinidadian-born artist once wrote.
Adam Pendleton, who recently took over MoMA’s Marron Family Atrium with the text-, image-, and sound-based installation, 2021-2022, and an affecting video portrait of the social-justice activist and scholar Ruby Sales. “I was listening to WNYC in September 2016 and heard a voice. The character, the tempo, the tone made me pay attention. It was the activist Ruby Sales.
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