Los Angeles Exhibition 💚 Will Rawls: [siccer]

💚 About the Artist Will Rawls, born in 1978 in Boston, Massachusetts, is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in both Los Angeles and New York. He actively works across choreography, performance art, curation, and writing. 🎭✨ This exhibition uses dance, frame-by-frame animation, and sound to explore the role and mechanisms of media in documenting, exploiting, and erasing the Black body. Through cinematic and stage-related techniques, Rawls challenges the boundaries between life, rehearsal, and performance. The work is created using stop-motion animation, featuring an all-Black cast performing a range of movements and captured states. The performers’ gestures appear both fragmented and continuous, shifting between clarity and blur against a green framework reminiscent of the green screens commonly used in filmmaking. While green screens are traditionally meant to disappear, in [siccer], the screen becomes a stage for both the performers and the audience. Rawls refuses stillness, reinterpreting how racialized communities navigate forced invisibility. As Kermit the Frog once reminded us, “It’s not easy being green.” 🐸💚 📍 Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Have you seen this thought-provoking exhibition yet? What are your impressions of Will Rawls’ multidisciplinary approach? Share your thoughts or your favorite contemporary art shows in the comments—let’s keep the conversation going! 🗣️👀 #ArtLoverToday #ArtShinesPlan #LookUpAtArt #WeekendInLA #LAExhibition #LAArtShow #SeeArtInLA #WhereToGoInLA #CloudExhibitionTour #GalleryHopping #ContemporaryArt #PerformanceArt #BlackArtists #GreenScreenArt #ArtAndIdentity