RAQUE FORD

Multimedia artist Raque Ford (b. 1986, Columbia, Maryland; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) presents a newly commissioned work on the building facade across the street from the Whitney and The High Line. Working within the traditions of Pop art and Minimalism, Ford remixes visual and linguistic symbols of popular culture to explore how social codes shape private subjectivity. The words “A little space for you / right under my shoe,” excerpted from an original poem by Ford, wave within a collage of shoe prints and graphic shapes. Noted for its layered use of text, images, and media, particularly commercial materials, Ford’s work plays with the scale of the billboard to address the pedestrians below, pairing the entreating words of the poem with the imposing image of stomping shoes to create a work that can be interpreted on multiple registers. This site-specific project will be Ford’s first work created entirely digitally.