Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word

Contemporary Art

2021

Coco Fusco
Cuban American, born 1960

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Coco Fusco
Title: Your Eyes Will Be an Empty Word
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 2021
Medium: Single-channel video, color, with sound; 13 min. 30 sec.
Edition: 2 of 10, plus 2 artist's proofs
Dimensions: Installation dimensions variable
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund
Reference Number: 2022.1418

David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, curators, Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet is It’s Kept, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of America Art, 2022), 112, 113 (color ill.), 116, 117 (color ill.).
Jace Clayton and Hilton Als, “Whitney Biennial 2022,” Artforum (Summer 2022), front cover (color ill.), 226, 227 (color ill.).
Nick Compton “An intoxicating Whitney Biennial bets big on abstraction, identity and super-sharp video,” Wallpaper*, Apr. 23, 2022 (color ill.), https://www.wallpaper.com/art/80th-whitney-biennial-2022-review
Maximilíano Durónm, “12 Standouts at the 2022 Whitney Biennial, Where Poetic Reflections on Past Two Years Shine Brightly,” ARTnews, Mar. 29, 2022 (color ill.), https://www.proquest.com/nytimes/docview/2645734342/fulltext/24206BC00BB24C19PQ/2?accountid=26320
Cotter Holland, “Review: A Show of Shadows and Light,” New York Times, Apr. 1, 2021 (color ill.), C1.
Brian P. Kelly, “Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet As It’s Kept , Review: A Staging That Mutes Its Merits,” Wall Street Journal (Online), Apr. 4, 2022, https://www.proquest.com/wallstreetjournal/docview/2646791861/B8A2EC04DDAB4430PQ/1?accountid=26320
Allison C. Meier, “In Whitney Biennial video, Coco Fusco meditates on New York’s island of lost souls,” The Art Newspaper, Apr. 1, 2022 (color ill.), https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/04/01/whitney-biennial-coco-fusco-hart-island-covid-19
Siddhartha Mitter, “Whitney Biennal Picks 63 Artists to Take Stock of Now,” New York Times, Jan. 25, 2022 (color ill.), https://www.proquest.com/nytimes/docview/2622669612/B28A4092BA864569PQ/1?accountid=26320
Peter Schjedahl, “The Art World: All Together Now, The Whitney Biennial returns, after a pandemic-induced delay,” The New Yorker, Apr. 11, 2022, 65.
Jillian Steinhauer, “Covid Memorials Offer a Place to Put Our Grief: Critic’s Notebook,” New York Times (Online), May 5, 2022 (color ill.) https://www.proquest.com/nytimes/docview/2659731462/985CE1B8CA104860PQ/4?accountid=26320
Benjamin Sutton, “The 2022 Whitney Biennial in five key themes,” The Art Newspaper, Apr. 6, 2022, https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/04/06/2022-whitney-biennial-quiet-as-its-kept-five-key-themes
Phil Swanson, “The Whitney Biennial Makes A Highly Anticipated Comeback This Spring,” Gotham, Mar. 16, 2022, https://gothammag.com/whitney-museum-biennial-2022
Murray Whyte, Restless and uncertain, the first Whitney Biennial since the pandemic began, begs the question: Where do we go from here?,” Boston Globe, Mar. 31, 2022 (color ill.), https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/03/31/arts/restless-uncertain-first-whitney-biennial-since-pandemic-began-begs-question-where-do-we-go-here/?p1=BGSearch_Overlay_Results

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet is It’s Kept, Apr. 6–Sept. 5, 2022, no cat. no. (exhibition copy 2 of 3).
Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin, Maria Teresa Hincapie: If this were a principle of infinity, Mar. 16-June 12, 2022; Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, María Teresa Hincapié: Si este fuera un principio de infinito, Oct. 20, 2022–Feb. 26, 2023, CAT INFO FORTHCOMING, (exhibition copy 3 of 3).

The artist; sold through Alexander Gray Associates, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 8, 2022.

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