A group exhibition is always—must be—a mélange of opportunity. It is a place one visits for the intensity of variety as opposed to the singularity offered by a solo operator. You don’t see the artwork so much as you grasp its relativity to the field in which it’s been placed. In this sense, every biennial is as much about the interactive relationships established between the artworks as it is oriented to any particular object.
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In a conversation between Smith and Whitney director Adam Weinberg, the pair describe a tenet of Smith’s art as the act of “changing nouns to verbs.” In other words, Smith’s art aims to shift the role of Indigenous people as subjects that are mapped, or are the target of imperialist abstractions like defined frontiers, to that of mapmakers themselves. Smith’s mixed-media War-Torn Dress (2002) most overtly highlights the distinctions between the mapped and the mapmakers.