The Whitney Biennial’s curators share the process of choosing this year’s art
The 2024 Whitney Biennial opened to the public on Wednesday. The art show, which happens every two years, is the longest-running survey of American art in the US.
Let's talk about the first piece that you see when you get off the elevator on the sixth floor. It's a wall with a black and white flower printed on it that leads straight into a video installation, called “Pollinator.” Tell us about this piece and the artist who created it.If you've been in the Whitney before, you realize you're riding the elevator all the way up to the eighth floor.
Then, as we traveled around the country, and also to major international group shows by fellow curators all over the world, we started to see a number of themes emerging that occur throughout the exhibition in very intertwining ways.There's a lot of psychological issues that the artists were telling us about. There was a lot of interest in psychoanalysis, the psychological implications of architectural space and systems of power.
Installation view of Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better than the Real Thing . Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, xhairymutantx Embedding Study 1, 2024.Artificial intelligence has a bigger role in contemporary art than it did a few years ago. Even now at the Whitney, there's an AI-centered exhibition. How were you thinking about incorporating AI into this show as you prepared?I think some of it is AI is one of the cultural backdrops that we're responding to.
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