by Commissioner.
Every year Commissioner collaborates with an artist, in 2024 Carrington Ware was the season’s commissioned artist. Her time-based piece quite literally requires that we slow down and observe. Carrington’s work is especially poignant as Commissioner experiments with artists creating in time-based mediums, and ground in the possibilities offered by Black Rest—an underpinning value of their program alongside community partners NYU Center for Black Visual Culture.
“Rest, for me, is a luxury and a right. When people think of luxury, they often imagine wealth, grand possessions, or excess, but I see rest as one of the most valuable luxuries—one that’s becoming increasingly unaffordable and unattainable in this life. It’s about actually having the chance to slow down.” — Carrington Ware