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Smith’s work, which often takes shape across various forms, is grounded in the imaginary possibilities of the moving image. Drawing from third-world cinema, structuralist film, and science fiction, her immersive works seek to propose an alternate future through speculative narratives, offering a liberated and expanded worldview.

Her major solo exhibition, Bronze Icebergs, unfolded at Kunstverein’s Hazenstraat location in 2020. For it, Smith developed a new series of drawings, a film and a flag designed especially for the occasion. In the forty-six drawings that were on display at Kunstverein, Smith manipulated the official executive order, freshly signed by the then US President (Trump), which condemned the destruction of monuments and called for the building of a national garden that would feature the statues of ‘Our American Heroes’. Smith ammended the announcement by inserting the names of significant Black female activists and cultural figures as well as moments of insurgent uprisings that are commonly written out of history. The drawings now up for auction were part of the research for this exhibition and are all unique.

Smith has displayed her films, objects, and installations around the world, notably in the Whitney Biennial (2017), Prospect 4, New Orleans (2017), and MASS MoCA. Her works are also internationally collected by public institutions, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Cauleen Smith
Untitled
Ink on translucent paper
Edition 1/1

€2000,00