Yesterday Is Melting
The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington | Clarington, Ontario | 2022
Sandy Williams IV: Yesterday Is Melting
Featuring ANTIESTABLISHED,
Mariana Parisca, Monsieur Zohore
April 1 - May 28, 2022
Co-curated by Matthew Kyba and Megan Kammerer
Yesterday is Melting encapsulates a relentless pursuit of public agency and free will in the face of colonial institutions, governmental power, and increasing social amnesia. Sandy Williams IV implicates audiences to acknowledge how we observe and participate in history. From the reconceptualization of public monuments to the unspoken implications of unattended luggage or the sociopolitical index captured in currency, Williams strikes a balance in tension. They interplay the untouchable and the malleable, the passage of time and the infallible memory, the transparent and the concealed to encourage the viewer’s participation in history-making.
Additional works by ANTIESTABLISHED (Kate Turner, Warren Jones, and Williams), Mariana Parisca, and Monsieur Zohore respond to Williams’ engagement in the emancipation of public space. Together their disparate works unravel common structures of power and repression in the Americas.
