![]() Magid’s projects often feel like an evolutionary explosion from which earnings and questions start to multiply. I was trying to find something that spoke to that disjuncture but that also had the potential to move beyond it and grow. I was looking for something that spoke to the slippages I kept hearing in the media and from the government between the cost of lives and the cost of living. ![]() "I really feel when the material is right you know and when I got to the phrase ' the body was already so fragile' it made all other options feel wrong. " For the phrase, I had 40 pages of ideas, and there were a lot of beautiful options but they ultimately felt arbitrary," Magid tells me. ![]() Magid convinced a Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn-based engraver to manually laser etch the edges of 120,000 pennies with the phrase: “The body was already so fragile” and she started spending the finished currency at bodegas last week. Unlike camera-ready installations or stunt art, Tender’s parts are hard to spot unless you are looking. ![]() Tender is not a singular object that can be documented but rather an active body whose armatures are choreographed by the monetary transactions New Yorkers perform everyday. Creative Time’s newest commission, Tender, 2020 by artist Jill Magid, shares the monumental ambition of these projects past but without the runway show-esque ephemerality. Whether it is coordinated pigeons taking to the nighttime sky with lights affixed to their feet or a gigantic sphinx rendered in sugar, Creative Time’s public art projects tend to speak in the tongue of spectacle-appealing to our cameras, they demand to be captured as a one-off experiences for our memory books. ![]()
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