Sam Durant
This week’s art post features the work of Sam Durant. Durant is a multi media artist whose works focus on hierarchies of power, referencing historical moments and social acts of resistance or response. Durant’s works are often made for public display outside of art institutions and attempt a larger public discourse.
Sam Durant, Untitled (drone), 2016-2021
Sam Durant, Proposal for Public Fountain, 2021, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Sam Durant, Like, Man, I’m Tired (of Waiting), 2021
“Since the 1990s, Sam Durant has developed a research-driven artistic practice in which he dissects and reframes both dominant historical narratives and forgotten facets of our collective past...
(L)ight boxes are based on hand-drawn protest signs that the artist found in photos of street protests. By giving the personal phrases and slogans from protest movements an existence as a colourful light box, Sam Durant emphasises their necessity, and often also the humorous or utopian character of the messages.”
Photo Sources:
ArtNet, Unit London
Mousse Magazine, Sam Durant, Proposal for Public Fountain, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Unframed, Sam Durant, Like Man I’m Tired of Waiting, LACMA
ArtLead, Billboard Series #21, Sam Durant and the Art of Dialogue
Toward Freedom, Untitled (Drone), 2021
