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Watch Now: Precious Okoyomon ‘This God Is A Slow Recovery’ (2021) The 2021 Frieze Artist Artist Award commission focuses on the failures of communication Join Frieze Become a member to watch this video and gain unlimited access to frieze.com Precious Okoyomon, the winner of the 2021 Frieze Artist Award at Frieze New York, presented a performance-activated installation conceived specifically for The Shed for Frieze New York. For This God Is A Slow Recovery, Okoyomon focused their research on failures of communication, and instances where language collapses, breaks down, and arrives at an impasse. As an epitome of miscommunication, the legend of the Tower of Babel was taken as a point of departure to conceive, together with industrial designer Jonathan Olivares, a steel deck structure covered in camouflage netting that was placed at the centre of The McCourt. ....
Precious Okoyomon. Photo by Sarah Cascone. New York’s Frieze Art Fair opens today, but the prestigious Frieze Artist Award commission, a performance featuring artist and poet Precious Okoyomon, has already come and gone, staged quietly last week before a small, socially distanced crowd. When art collectors descend on the Shed for the city’s first in-person art fair since March 2020, they will only be able to experience This God Is a Slow Recovery (2021) in video form, playing at the fair and streaming online. A cacophony of sound and music, the piece saw Okoyomon and other performers perched on black platforms decorated with silver and camouflage netting in the center of the Shed’s performance hall. A collaboration with Los Angeles-based industrial designer Jonathan Olivares, the set was meant to recall the collapse of the Tower of Babel, encircled with branches, leaves, and a scattering of yellow flowers. ....
The Artist Who Transforms Galleries Into Forests and Fields https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/t-magazine/precious-okoyomon-artist-shed.html The Artist Who Transforms Galleries Into Forests and Fields Precious Okoyomon’s vast installations, which often incorporate plants as well as poetry and sculpture, celebrate the chaos of nature, and warn against its destruction. The artist Precious Okoyomon in their Brooklyn studio.Credit.Emiliano Granado By Coco Romack Published May 3, 2021Updated May 5, 2021 “It was the freshest breath of air I’d taken all year, in that closed room with all the snails,” says the artist Precious Okoyomon, recalling the setting of their recent exhibition “Earthseed,” at Frankfurt’s Museum für Moderne Kunst’s Zollamt gallery. The entire floor of the former customs office was covered with several feet of topsoil and in it Okoyomon, 27, had planted a dense green blanket of young kudzu plants, the cultivation of which ....
Design News, Delivered xx, your friends at Business of Home Kvadrat goes solo in America fabric | Jan 12, 2021 | Kvadrat is going solo. Ending an 18-year distribution partnership with Maharam, the Danish fabric giant is spinning up its own operations across the United States in 2021. Its plans suggest that the company is intent on growing its stateside business with a design-forward approach: Kvadrat has hired two buzzy industrial designers ( Erwan Bouroullec and “This is a natural evolution,” Kvadrat CEO Anders Byriel tells Business of Home. “We have a lot of respect for Maharam and this has been a journey, developing together. [Now] we’re in a position where we have to be closer to the US market.” ....