Installation view of Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 6- September 5, 2022). From left to right: Mónica Arreola, Untitled, 2020; Mónica Arreola, Untitled, 2018; Mónica Arreola, Untitled, 2018; Awilda Sterling-Duprey, . . . blindfolded, 2020–; Rindon Johnson, An island is all surrounded by water In the morning foreboding Quickly solved by dripping A shower, you know A slow crawl to the park Wait first meat A coffee A hill A roundabout A breeze on the lake A larking body of water, once screaming once babbling, once running A sleeping family A white child with A water gun A tall tree A tunneling A horn Another A too small blanket, you in my mind and next to me A wind in my ears, my basement look what I found, leave the lights on A sigh A tie on a rooftop A still flooding Another horn All in the flight path An immovable object A clapping of leaves A certainty, it is seven feet deep One boy watches the other A horn, 2022. Photograph by Ron AmstutzInstallation view of Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, April 6- September 5, 2022). From left to right: Ralph Lemon, A selection from an as-yet-untitled series, 2020-22; Awilda Sterling-Duprey, … blindfolded, 2020; Rindon Johnson, An island is all surrounded by water In the morning foreboding Quickly solved by dripping A shower, you know A slow crawl to the park Wait first meat A coffee A hill A roundabout A breeze on the lake A larking body of water, once screaming once babbling, once running A sleeping family A white child with A water gun A tall tree A tunneling A horn Another A too small blanket, you in my mind and next to me A wind in my ears, my basement look what I found, leave the lights on A sigh A tie on a rooftop A still flooding Another horn All in the flight path An immovable object A clapping of leaves A certainty, it is seven feet deep One boy watches the other A horn, 2022. Photograph by Ron Amstutz
Installation view of Coeval Proposition #2: Last Year’s Atlantic, or You look really good, you look like you pretended like nothing ever happened, or a Weakening, 2021, Realtime portrait animating programme, weather data, projector, platform, computer at Law of Large Numbers: Our Selves, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK (2021)
Installation view of Coeval Proposition #2: Last Year’s Atlantic, or You look really good, you look like you pretended like nothing ever happened, or a Weakening, 2021, Realtime portrait animating programme, weather data, projector, platform, computer at Law of Large Numbers: Our Selves, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK (2021)
Installation view of Coeval Proposition #1: Tear down so as to make flat with the Ground or The *Trans America Building DISMANTLE EVERYTHING, 2021, Redwood, steel, pontoon, chain, at Law of Large Numbers: Our Selves, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK (2021)
Installation view, Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, UA (2021)
Installation view, Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, UA (2021)
Installation view, Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, UA (2021)
Installation view, Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, UA (2021)
Installation view, Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, UA (2021)
Installation view, Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, UA (2021)
Rindon Johnson, Not motion recollected in tranquility. Rather the small hand touching the large one, or color in big buckets, in heavy pots of cast iron and a hillside at autumn and the going over of rocks like a nipple between your lips, or the quiet of stage fright, of animals, of a sleeping bear in a big cave and pavement on a jaw bone., 2021, Leather, bleach, polyurethane, 91.44 × 91.44 cm
Rindon Johnson, Hold my arms it don’t matter. Unity is desirable but it is not the end in itself. A consequence is acceptable because we decided the rules., 2021, Leather, bleach, crayon, 53.34 × 53.34 cm
Rindon Johnson, A dew point, your running faucet, I never minded, so hungry, dripping in the doorway, just put it in my mouth, no beliefs or opinions, just at the limits of condensation, leafy wet stone, aching eyes in the vibrancy like I had never been so full before of anything let alone, nor could I ever be after, and since? Could I ever be again, no matter my demands, my explicit incantations, orderly developments, we watched the sun go from behind the trees, an appearance of alive owl, no vistas just finger tips in bloody openings willful amnesia in anticipation of tomorrow, more falling leaves and eventually the reservoir for looking and drinking. The tunnel is beneath the surface for completeness we show that they remain significantly distinct., 2021, Leather and crayon, 167.64 × 121.92 cm
Rindon Johnson, For example, collect the water just to see it pool there above your head. Don’t be a Fucking Hero!, 2021–ongoing. Rawhide, paracord, rainwater.
Installation view, Law of Large Numbers: Our Bodies, Sculpture Center, New York, US (2021)
Installation view, Law of Large Numbers: Our Bodies, Sculpture Center, New York, US (2021)
Rindon Johnson, This one is high stakes clowning, 2021, Leather, bleach, crayon, polyurethane, 88.90 × 71.12 cm
Installation view, The Valley of the Moon, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, US (2021)
Installation view, The Valley of the Moon, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, US (2021)
Installation view of Knot, Gypsum Cement, automotive Paint, 2021, made in collaboration with Jordan Loeppky-Kolesnik.
Rindon Johnson, This is the one about how piss can always be cleaned out of carpets, 2021, Furniture leather, charcoal, rust, crayon, coconut oil, mahogany stain, organic debris, ash, 167.5 x 106.5 cm
Rindon Johnson, View out the slender window: There’s always a hair in the soup somewhere and some people are looking with a magnifying glass, 2019–ongoing, Rawhides, dirt, 110 x 95 x 145 cm
Installation view of May the moon meet us apart, may the sun meet us together, 2021, an interactive virtual reality film. Produced by Fabbula. Animation by Pariah Interactive.