What Remains: Kevin Beasley at A4 Arts Foundation

Published on ArtThrob, 2 March 2020

“On a window seat, left in haphazard arrangement: a dried piece of kelp, a T-shirt and an airline luggage ticket, marked CPT – priority heavy. The accompanying list of materials, which appears in the exhibition handout, extends to include the suggestively vague medium of detritus. It may or may not refer to the beach sand that surrounds the arrangement or to the rectangle of clear, pink plastic sheeting on the floor beside it. Perhaps it refers to the noise from the street below or to the view of the East City just beyond the glass – to the detritus of urban sounds and scenes. Or perhaps it has become a collective noun for all these things taken together; sand, police siren, T-shirt. The flotsam and jetsam of daily life that momentarily collide in this place, at this window.”

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