Boil, Toil + Trouble

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.