Inside Nikita Gale’s Frieze London Installation That Honors Black Women Musicians
Nikita Gale is an interdisciplinary artist making performance art without performance. Central to the artist’s practice is the question: What makes a witness? Gale approaches witness-bearing through sparse installations made up of sound and equipment related to a performance, like curtains or a stage set, for example. With an MFA in new genres from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a BA in anthropology from Yale University, the Los Angeles–based artist combines research with expansive technology to create work that asks audiences to consider: What happens to performance once the body is taken away?
Gale’s rich, performance-centered yet minimalist practice is the center of the latest BMW Open Work commission. Titled 63/22 (2022), the installation features a recreation of a 1960s music studio in the BMW Lounge at Frieze London in Regent’s Park, on view from October 12th through 16th.
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