Installation view of Joy Curtis, "Ocean Grandma, Sympathetic/ Parasympathetic, and Future Organs (2022–23), plant dyes on cotton, silk, and hemp; denim, kapok, steel, and bronze wire, 102 x 90 x 144 ...

Curtis’s work is sensitive to matriarchal lineage: the gory miracle of birth, the fecundity of death, generational divide and transmission. Installation view of Joy Curtis, "Ocean Grandma, Sympathetic ...