Lyles & King is happy to current Twist to strengthen, a two-person exhibition by Sarah Miska and Carla Edwards. The exhibition options work by Miska alongside material wall works and twine flooring sculptures by Edwards. Connecting their practices is a fastidious method to supplies and an impulse to ship incisive cultural critique. The present’s title Twist to strengthen,* may be learn as a command or an motion, referring to elements of bodily labor which can be at instances depicted or imbued inside their works. Throughout Miska and Edwards’ work, there’s a quietly foreboding sensibility, an interaction between domination and wildness, in addition to a shared, distinctly American, visible lexicon.
*”Twist to strengthen” is a phrase pulled from “A Knotted Line Is Not the Shortest Distance,” a poem by Frances Richard. This poem was included in What Occurs Between . It was printed in 2022 by CCA Wattis Institute for Up to date Arts and Sternberg Press.
