Candice Lin's first solo exhibition in France on view at Bétonsalon
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Candice Lin's first solo exhibition in France on view at Bétonsalon
Candice Lin, detail from A Hard White Body, 2017. Courtesy Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research.



PARIS.- Bétonsalon - Center for Art and Research is presenting Candice Lin’s first solo exhibition in France. With A Hard White Body, Candice Lin weaves together two stories that do not seem to allow for an obvious connection. At first glance, the black American writer and social critic James Baldwin (1924–1987), and Jeanne Baret (1740–1807), French botanist and first woman to have sailed around the globe, appear to share only their initials. Lin unites these two characters who, despite two centuries of distance, lived out desires that were allowed through displacement from their native lands. They navigated queer and racialized gender presentations that were projected upon them and that at times they embraced.

In her installation, Candice Lin produces a bedroom made of unfired porcelain, inspired by James Baldwin’s novel Giovanni’s Room, that she moistens with a distillation of piss, water from the Seine and medicinal plants perhaps used by Jeanne Baret. Porcelain, this hard white body, evokes purity, whiteness and resistance to cracking or staining. An Orientalist object of desire, it was later used as a bacteriological filter.

Lin mixes porcelain and pungent liquids, invoking histories of exoticism, virology and global trade, and raising the question of a racialized language. She stages processes of contamination between organic and inorganic materials, creating an unstable sculptural ecosystem that requires constant caretaking. Visitors are invited to physically participate.

Candice Lin’s exhibition is completed by a series of public programs designed by Lotte Arndt in collaboration with Temporary Gallery, Cologne. They are sponsored by Perspektive - Fund for Contemporary Art and Architecture, a program initiated by the Bureau for Visual Arts of the Institut français Germany.

The exhibition and its public programs are taking place in the context of the 30th anniversary of the death of James Baldwin (1924-1987).

Candice Lin received her MFA in New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute and her double BA in Visual Arts and Art Semiotics at Brown University. Her work engages notions of gender, race and sexuality, drawing from scientific theories, anthropology and queer theory. Lin’s work has been recently exhibited at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LAXART, Kadist Art Foundation (Paris), the Delfina Foundation (London), and Akuna Zentroa/Alhondiga (Bilbao), with recent solo exhibitions at Gasworks (London) and Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles). She is represented by Ghebaly Gallery in Los Angeles and Quadrado Azul in Porto. She lives and works in Los Angeles.










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