
Walid Raad
Walid Raad continues his sly and destabilizing interventions within the exhibition space at Paula Cooper Gallery. Via wall texts, the artist created fictional personages and histories to direct the viewer’s thinking about the various pieces on display, fundamentally shaping how the images will be read. As always, Raad reminds us that grand narratives are frequently subjective, and often veer more closely to fantasy or outright fabrication than we are willing to admit.
Epilogue II: The Constables, 2021, presents a suite of photographs depicting the backs of paintings that we are told were discovered