Exhibition

Boil, Toil + Trouble

15 Feb 2023 – 26 Feb 2023

Special hours

15-Feb-2023
13:00 – 19:00
16-Feb-2023
10:00 – 18:00
17-Feb-2023
10:00 – 18:00
18-Feb-2023
Closed
19-Feb-2023
Closed
20-Feb-2023
Closed
21-Feb-2023
Closed
22-Feb-2023
10:00 – 17:00
23-Feb-2023
10:00 – 17:00
24-Feb-2023
10:00 – 17:00
25-Feb-2023
10:00 – 17:00
26-Feb-2023
10:00 – 16:00

Free admission

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Art in Common

Los Angeles
California, United States

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The exhibition of over 50 contemporary artists examine water through the lens of magic, ritual, and the role of the “witch” or medium in contemporary art. Free to the public, the traveling exhibition evolves.

About

The exhibition includes new site-specific commissions by artists living and working in the region, including Lita Albuquerque, Simphiwe Ndzube, Devin Reynolds, Debra Scacco & Joel Garcia, and Amanda Yates Garcia—as well as new and recent work by locally-rooted artists Nicki Green, Trulee Hall, Yassi Mazandi, Nicolette Mishkan, and Fawn Rogers—together in conversation with rarely exhibited works by canonical artists including Marina Abramović, Radcliffe Bailey, Niki de Saint Phalle, David Hammons, Maya Lin, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, and many more.

Boil, Toil + Trouble approaches the foundational oceanic myths, ritual interactions, as well as the mundane activities that shape our relationship with water. Exploring alchemy and climate, fishing and bathing, baptism and cleansing as well as the fantasies, gods, monsters, and marine life we assign to or take from the sea; the artists' works excavate the desires, fears, and magic of our waters, emphasizing bodies of water as sites of migration and diaspora, and the wells of ancestral knowledge contained therein. The exhibition brings to the fore a broad range of environmental, spiritual, feminist, and political perspectives about how individuals, cities, and societies interpret, negotiate, and interact with spirituality and water—with the aim to catalyze interdisciplinary creation and conversations that reframe Los Angeles’ relationship to water historically, spiritually, and in our current climate crisis.

CuratorsToggle

Zoe Lukov

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Lita Albuquerque

Yassi Mazandi

Wangechi Mutu

Torkwase Dyson

Superflex

Robert Nava

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Ricardo Partida

Radcliffe Bailey

Paulo Pjota

Niki de Saint Phalle

Nicolette Mishkan

Nicole Eisenman

Nereida Patricia

Naomi Fisher

Myrlande Constant

Loni Johnson

Lezley Saar

Julian Charrière

Jillian Mayer

Jean Herard Celeur

Jamilah Sabur

James Casebere

Guadalupe Maravilla

Frantz Zephirin

Edgar Arceneaux

Dalton Gata

Chelsea Culprit

Chase Hall

Cannupa Hanska Luger

Bony Ramirez

Astrid Terrazas

Armani Howard

Ariana Papademetropoulos

April Gornik

Amanda Yates Garcia

Joel Garcia

Debra Scacco

Marina Abramović

Marina Abramović

Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman

Ana Mendieta

Maya Lin

David hammons

Devin Reynolds

Simphiwe Ndzube

Trulee Hall

Nicki Green

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