Kandis Williams' "Medusa" is a print that merges grayscale tones with overlapping figures, creating a dynamic, chaotic composition. Prominent features include snakes and human faces, suggesting themes of transformation and mythological power. The style is a collage, where fragmented imagery evokes a sense of dislocation and tension. Williams employs deconstruction to highlight the complex narratives around Black bodies, challenging representations across culture. The artwork serves as a critique of historical and contemporary structures that marginalize Black identity, especially Black women, by drawing on transhistorical and cultural motifs. ...
Williams’ meticulously researched practice - which spans collage, video, performance, and writing - foregrounds the body as a site of experience. Drawing from critical theory around race, authority, colonialism, necropolitics, and eroticism she interrogates representations of Blackness and the Black body across popular culture. The resulting work - which often involves processes of cutting up, stripping back, deconstruction, and compilation - collapses time and space, exposing the inherent violence within the transhistorical structures that render Black bodies, and particularly Black women’s bodies, in a state of embodied marginality. ...
Heidi was established in 2021 in Berlin. It intends to engage with the current narratives in contemporary art and culture, championing artists with strong aesthetic and inquiring sensibilities. It encourages intergenerational dialogue through an international programme that includes both emergent and more established practices. The gallery showcases artists who work across a range of media—be it painting, sculpture, photography, film, sound, performance, and installation-based work.
The gallery has exhibited artists such as Leidy Churchman, Hanne Darboven, David Douard, Mimosa Echard, Iza Genzken, Rochelle Goldberg, Anthea Hamilton, Brook Hsu, Birney Imes, Joan Jonas, Atiéna R. Kilfa, Veit Laurent Kurz, Benjamin Lallier, Matthew Langan-Peck, Victor Man, Adam Martin, Kunizo Matsumoto, Frida Orupabo, Laura Owens, Rose Salane, Jim Shaw, Steven Shearer, Will Sheldon, Avery Singer, Akeem Smith, Michael E. Smith, Jordan Strafer, Sturtevant, Alina Szapocznikow, Alicja Wahl, Royce Weatherly, Marnie Weber, and Kandis Williams. ...
