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The Wick Culture - Three Point Bend, Derek Fordjour, 2019

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Three Point Bend, 2019
Courtesy of Petzel Gallery

The New York-based artist made global headlines in 2018 with Half Mast, a mural commissioned by the Whitney Museum that addresses America’s reckoning with mass shootings. Since then, his career has been on a meteoric rise.

His works, typically patchworked from humble materials such as newspaper and charcoal, grapple with themes of race, inequality, and aspiration in American society. Electric colour and repetition are signature elements.

He also looks at the culture of sport in his explorations of the collective. In Three Point Bend, three figures in identical costumes fold nimbly into backbends. ‘I have a conceptual interest in patterns: how they persist, how they are disrupted, what is fixed and what is shifting,’ the artist has said.

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