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Sam Durant
Born 1961 in Seattle, USA. Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.
Sam Durant, 2008, Installation view of Sam Durant's works This is Freedom?, 200 Years of White Lies and End White Supremacy in the 16th Biennale of Sydney 2008 on the façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Courtesy the artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles.
This project was made possible with generous support of Blum & Poe, Los Angeles and with assistance from the Farrell Family Foundation. Photograph: Ben Symons.
Sam Durant has used installation, drawing, sculpture and text since the early 1990s to explore language and society, and how individuals and groups articulate their concerns publicly. Durant’s work takes a critical view of social, political and cultural issues, and explores the varying relationships between popular culture and fine art through a variety of materials and processes. His diverse subjects include the civil rights movement, southern rock music and modernist architecture. For the Biennale, the artist has created a series of illuminated signs containing de-contextualised quotes from placards used during protest demonstrations within the Aboriginal civil rights movement in Australia and from African American and Native American civil rights movements in the United States. It is art about the use and meaning of political language in society. A number of these light boxes are on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art and one is exhibited at Artspace.
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