Sanford Biggers: The Extinction Agenda

Sanford Biggers’ artworks travel across history and place, compressing time and geography by drawing together disparate aesthetics, humanities, and concepts. Though starkly opposed in their choice of materials, the quilt works of the Codex series and the marble Chimera sculptures question the nature of authenticity, authority and origin. The artist sees the works in both series as not only contemporary objects but “objects for a future ethnography”, encouraging their provenance and object relationships to be studied, researched and continuously reconsidered. “The Extinction Agenda” proposes cohesive and united works despite their diverse sources and origins. The exhibition stands as a testament to the multiple meanings, codes and ideas that can coexist within one particular object as well as across culture at large.