An Eerie Landscape Of Ashes And Ladybugs Beckons In The East Village
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A physical post-Covid landscape -- and a powerful place of mourning -- has been created inside Performance Space New York in the East Village.
Artist Precious Okoyomon (they/their) made the installation on commission after winning the Frieze Festival’s Emerging Artist Award. Called “Fragmented Body Perceptions as Higher Vibration Frequencies to God” -- the title is from their own poem -- this eerie, otherworldly place is Okoyomon’s reaction to COVID.
“I just think they’re one of the most interesting artists out there,” says Frieze jury chair Jenny Schlenzka, executive artistic director of Performance Space and curator of Okoyomon’s installation.