To Reconcile the Sunset
Artist:
Boz Deseo Garden
Date of creation:
2024
Domain:
Installation
Materials:
Wooden transport crate, Oil on mahogany, Metal hook, Tree resin, Engraved Flamex electric lighter
Dimensions:
102 x 178 x 11 cm
Collection:
Lafayette Anticipations - Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin
Date of acquisition:
2025
Boz Deseo Garden, To Reconcile the Sunset, Installation, 2024, Collection Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin © DR
Designed to house William Turner’s painting Slave Ship (1840) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, To Reconcile the Sunset takes the form of a mahogany case, inspired by the storage crates used for the transport and preservation of works of art. Inside, a hook shaped like an eagle’s talon threatens to tear the canvas should the painting ever be removed. The joints of the cabinet are sealed with a resin which a Flamex lighter, supplied with the work, is intended to weaken in order to allow the painting to be removed. By highlighting this impossible access, Garden stages a dilemma in which every method of access entails a risk of damage. The artist thus explores the links between destruction, circulation, and the preservation of property, echoing the property regimes of slavery. The title borrows a phrase from the art historian Marcus Wood, who noted that, within Turner’s painting, “the drowned slaves and the glorious sunset were not reconciled”.
Text written by Alessia Damioli as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Text written by Alessia Damioli as part of the partnership between the École du Louvre and Lafayette Anticipations – Fonds de dotation Famille Moulin.
Exhibitions
Blackground: murmures des mornes
CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (France)
from 11 Jun 2026 to 28 Mar 2027
CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (France)
from 11 Jun 2026 to 28 Mar 2027
Spectral Fine Art Trust
Final Hot Desert, Londres (Angleterre)
from 05 Oct to 23 Nov 2024
Final Hot Desert, Londres (Angleterre)
from 05 Oct to 23 Nov 2024
Boz Deseo Garden
Born in 1997 in Monterey, Etats-Unis
La pratique interdisciplinaire de Boz Deseo Garden explore les liens entre matérialité, production des savoirs et héritages coloniaux, à la croisée de l’afropessimisme et de la psychanalyse. À travers la sculpture, la vidéo et l’écriture critique, Garden examine les empreintes de l’esclavage transatlantique dans les systèmes de représentation occidentaux tout en interrogeant les relations entre corps, matière et désir.
Né·e en 1997 à Monterey (États-Unis), Boz Deseo Garden est diplômé·e d’un Bachelor of Fine Arts du California Institute of the Arts (2019) et d’un Master of Fine Arts de l’Université de Californie (2024). Iel vit et travaille entre Los Angeles et Paris (France).
Né·e en 1997 à Monterey (États-Unis), Boz Deseo Garden est diplômé·e d’un Bachelor of Fine Arts du California Institute of the Arts (2019) et d’un Master of Fine Arts de l’Université de Californie (2024). Iel vit et travaille entre Los Angeles et Paris (France).
