Chloë Bass: Wayfinding at St. Nicholas Park—an exhibition organised by the Studio Museum in Harlem (until 27 September 2020)—invites visitors to find a moment of private reflection in a public space, and conceptually addresses concerns about rapid gentrification in New York. The artist has devised three large mirrored billboards that pose the following questions: “How much of love is attention?”; “How much of care is patience?”; and “How much of life is coping?” An audio guide delves into different gender and racial theories on wayfinding—the way in which people orient themselves in a specific environment. The show also features a series of site-specific sculptures with images and other texts—some that are drawn from archival architectural and health guides, some in the form of Yelp reviews that warn against going to the park at night because of cops, and others written by the artist—that are positioned as wayfinding signage along the pathways of the park. The exhibition marks the artist’s first solo museum presentation.
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