With a focus on authoritarian governance, patriarchy and religion, the artists interrogate the power inherent to archetypes, whether material, structural or symbolic. It is a deliberate application of clandestine methods, both subtle and exacting, to establish new visual language. Often starting from familiar motifs and objects, the use of sampling becomes a transgressive act that implicates the conflicts of contemporary life. In turn, their reconfigurations constitute alternative readings to both conditions of power and realities of living.

Courtney Willis Blair is US Senior Director of White Cube and holds a seat on the gallery’s global board of directors. She was formerly a Partner and Senior Director at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, where she led artist canonical strategy and institutional engagement in the US and internationally, from projects at documenta and the São Paulo Biennial, to exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas; the Jewish Museum, New York; MoMA, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Speed Art Museum, Kentucky. As a writer and journalist, she has profiled some of the world’s leading artists, architects and curators, as well as edited a number of artist books. She is the founder of Entre Nous, an international body of Black women art dealers established in 2016 and serves on the boards of The Kitchen, Triple Canopy, and the International Studio & Curatorial Program.

Exhibiting artists:

David Altmejd, Michael Armitage, Georg Baselitz, Mark Bradford, Theaster Gates, General Idea, Robert Gober, Philip Guston, David Hammons, Mona Hatoum, Christian Marclay, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Julie Mehretu, Adrian Piper, Pope.L, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Carol Rama, Ilana Savdieand Danh Vo.