Sanford Biggers Instagram – Find me at booth A1 with @massimodecarlogallery for Frieze NYC 🙏🏿 “Soft Geometries, is the presentation of a solo project by New York-based conceptual artist Sanford Biggers. At Frieze New York, Biggers unveils a survey of new vibrant sculptural quilts that defy traditional artistic boundaries. The new works included in Soft Geometries are part of Biggers’ Codex series, which are infused with a lexicon of layered histories and symbols drawn on an expansive array of references. The Codex series include mixed media paintings and sculptures done directly on or made from pre-1900 antique quilts. This process, like linguistic code-switching, recognizes language plurality, as the quilts signal their original creator’s intent and the new layers of meaning given to them through Biggers’ artistic intervention. Biggers uses history as a malleable material, which he repurposes and reinterprets, connecting temporalities of the past and future in homage to the stories of objects while allowing for new conceptual possibilities – what the artists call “future ethnographies.” Materializing history, Biggers positions himself as a collaborator of the past while also examining the current sociopolitical landscape. Biggers repurposes antique quilts to explore their iconographic importance as a kind of secret language, delving into the long-debated historical narrative that such quilts signaled safe spaces along the Underground Railroad.” – @massimodecarlogallery 📸: @daniel_greer 1: Fire Flower, 2023 Antique quilt, assorted textiles Approx. 63 × 63 × 5 in 160 × 160 × 12.7 cm 3: Soft Geometry, 2023 Antique quilts, assorted textiles Approx. 38 x 38 in 96.5 × 96.5 cm 5: Boogie Down (BX Boogie Woogie), 2023 Antique quilts, birch plywood, gold leaf 59 3/8 x 31 1/2 x 14 7/8 in #StudioSanfordBiggers #FriezeNY #NewYork #MASSIMODECARLO FriezeNewYork