Juxtapoz Magazine – Tau Lewis: Vox Populi, Vox Dei @ 52 Walker Street, NYC

52 Walker is happy to announce its fifth exhibition, Vox Populi, Vox Dei, which will attribute new function by New York-based artist Tau Lewis. Utilizing different sculptural techniques, Lewis produces vibrant, totemic kinds that suggest legendary territories over and above our own. At the gallery, the artist will existing a group of six new sculptures developed from salvaged textiles and other observed materials in a polygonal set up that will provide as a phase for an inaudible dialogue. The monumental forms—which range from 7 to more than thirteen feet tall—will uphold a corporeal arena for those people who move in between temporal and heavenly realms.

Pursuing her presentation Divine Giants Tribunal at the 2022 Venice Biennale, Lewis proceeds to generate anthropomorphic types encouraged by all those in Yoruban mask dramas—ones which are spiritually activated by the wearer and the viewers, and, by extension, their community. In generating the masks, Lewis develops their identities and narratives in an intermediary planet that implicates our ancestral pasts, non secular and cultural similitudes, and multiplanar existences. Deriving ideas from eschatology, Vox Populi, Vox Dei puts forth a joyful declaration of remaining: getting the sort of a stage on which to enact and actuate this ethereal sphere, the installation employs the apocalypse not as a auto for destruction but fairly as a system for transformation.

Born in Toronto, Tau Lewis is a self-taught artist who life and performs in Brooklyn, New York. Lewis was a short while ago included in the 2022 Venice Biennale exhibition The Milk of Desires, curated by Cecilia Alemani. The Community Artwork Fund also commissioned get the job done by the artist to be involved in the 2022 team presentation Black Atlantic at Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York. The artist will have forthcoming solo exhibitions at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris Hayward Gallery, London Haus der Kunst, Munich and the Institute of Modern day Artwork, Boston. Lewis is represented by Evening Gallery, Los Angeles, and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Her perform is held in the collections of Grinnell Faculty Museum of Artwork, Grinnell, Iowa Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Institute of Up to date Art, Miami Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa Metropolitan Museum of Art, Library Collection, New York and Nationwide Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.