Some of the collages are marked with annotations, the artist thinking out loud about affect, performance and politics.Ī video installation, presented on six squat old-school monitors, shows a dancer following lines on a studio floor, working through routines that Williams choreographed, as archival video flickers on a background screen-within-each-screen. There, she worked with three Black dancers versed in ballet and modern dance, exploring how they have learned within, but also resisted, the enduring racial and gender conventions of their training.
Large-scale collages on grid-lined paper mingle archival photographs of dancers and choreographers - some recognizable to aficionados, such as Alvin Ailey, George Balanchine and Martha Graham - with photographs Williams made in her studio. Dance is both the central theme and a lens to inspect contemporary culture in “A Line,” the debut New York solo exhibition of the multimedia artist Kandis Williams, and the inaugural presentation of 52 Walker, the new space that the David Zwirner gallery has opened in Tribeca.
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