The Discovery of the New World #9 (Rites of the Dead)

Candice Lin (American, b. 1979)
The Discovery of the New World #9 (Rites of the Dead), 2004
Graphite and ink on paper
8 × 10 in.
Framed.

Lin has exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery, Walker Art Center, and the Venice Biennale (2022). Her work is in the collection of the Hammer Museum. She is Associate Professor at UCLA. Represented by François Ghebaly, Los Angeles.

Graphite and ink on paper — a drawing from Lin's Discovery of the New World series, which examines colonial history through bodies, rituals, and the politics of contact. Lin's interest in power structures and material culture shows even in her most intimate works on paper. This drawing is compact and loaded.