about 11 months ago (12/06/2023)
Why Folding Screens Are Popping Up in Contemporary Artists’ Work | Artsy Skip to Main Content Art Why Folding Screens Are Popping Up in Contemporary Artists’ Work Josie Thaddeus-Johns Dec 6, 2023 4:36PM Ghada Amer never intended to make folding screens for “ Paravent Girls ,” her show on view at New York’s Tina Kim Gallery through December 9th. Even so, there they are—cast in bronze from flattened cardboard boxes, and in the show’s title, which borrows the French word for these sculptural room dividers. Amer’s ambivalence came from the function of screens, which “always hide something,” as the artist said in an interview with Artsy.