Trinidad: Joy Station
Craft Contemporary Museum
5814 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles CA 90036
January 27 — May 12, 2019
Trinidad: Joy Station draws from the archive of Buckminster Fuller’s designs, and from the fleeting communal experiment of Drop City, Colorado as it engages in dialogue with speculative thought, nomadism, and Spinozian joy. The geometric structures of assembled steel segments speak of immigrant labor, industrialization, the destruction of the environment, and space travel, as well as multicultural interiors that reference the coexistence of diverse cultural perspectives, and the survival of indigenous peoples (and of humans) in the future.
Photo credit: Beatriz Cortez, Trinidad: Joy Station (2019). Installation view at Craft Contemporary. Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles. Photo: Gina Clyne.
BEATRIZ CORTEZ 