Meet LA’s Art Community: Candice Lin Has Been Researching Ideas of Citizenship

October 21, 2020

Candice Lin is an assistant professor in the UCLA Department of Art. Lin is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installation, drawing, video, and living materials and processes, such as mold, mushrooms, bacteria, fermentation, and stains. 

Candice Lin (photo by Georgia Arnold)

"Welcome to the 30th installment of Meet LA’s Art Community. Check out our past interviews here.

This week I interview the artist Candice Lin, whose multimedia installations, drawings, and videos often draw on living materials and processes like mold, mushrooms, bacteria, fermentation, and stains. In particular, Lin is interested in materials (including insects and plants) that are wrapped up in histories of colonialism, slavery, and migration. As she shares in the interview below, she likes to keep “multiple jars of things always fermenting or steeping,” watching them evolve, “without any end goal or outcome in mind.”

Also in this interview, Lin offers a sneak peek of the artworks she will exhibit at the Gwangju Biennale (which was postponed from this year to the next) and in her first museum solo show at the Walker Art Center." — Elisa Wouk Almino, Oct. 19, 2020

This post is an excerpt. Read the full article on the Hyperallergic website.

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