Lygia Clark at Whitechapel Gallery: Engaging Bodies and Performing Freedom
Deeksha Nath, Stirworld
October 2024
Co-curated by Anglo-Brazilian art scholar Michael Asbury, artist and educator Sonia Boyce and Whitechapel Gallery Director, Gilane Tawadros, the ongoing retrospective of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark (1920-1988) at Whitechapel Gallery spans the last two decades and the most innovative period of her career. The 1950s to the 1970s saw Clark rethinking the relationship between art, the object and the viewer, shifting away from a traditional focus on art as object to create interactive, experiential works that that hinged on viewer participation. […]