Kandis Williams' collage "Ricochet: Pop Phosphorous daylight pales the smoke over sharps and flats" combines a layered composition of vibrant and muted colors, filled with overlapping images. The piece depicts scenes with figures, landscapes, and abstract forms, creating a dynamic juxtaposition of subjects. Williams employs a distinctive collage technique, deconstructing and compiling imagery to confront historical and cultural perceptions of Blackness. The work reflects her interrogation of transhistorical structures and inherent violence, particularly concerning the marginalization of Black women’s bodies. ...
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. ...
