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GALLERIES: Fred Wilson on his “Afro Kismet” Installation
Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts
07.24.2018“I look at museums, and try to understand what they are trying to tell you, that they sometimes don’t even know they are trying to tell you.” —Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson’s ambitious, ongoing installation Afro Kismet is now on view at Pace Gallery in New York, through August 17, 2018. An iteration of the installation was featured in the 15th Istanbul Biennial in the fall of 2017. In this video for the Istanbul Biennial, Wilson talks about the inspiration, and – more critically – the questioned assumptions, that drive the installation.