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Vanessa German: Trampoline—Resilience & Black Body & Soul

Streaming on Fort Gansevoort

Vanessa German speaks of her creative process as “surrender[ing] myself to the objects that call up to me.” In this exhibition, among those objects are heroes Venus and Serena Williams, star tennis players and icons of African-American female empowerment. In her signature way, German creates vibrant sculptural homages to the sisters. Her surreal assemblages, many quite large, are richly symbolic. —E.C.

Vanessa German’s “HEAVY (the heart and the love to carry in the body),” and Kiese Laymon’s “Heavy,” in reflection on “Love and Responsibility; Responsible Loving,” 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Fort Gansevoort and Pavel Zoubok Fine Art, New York.