For this new body of work, the Canadian artist documented a squatters' camp in California. Driven by homelessness, drug addiction or libertarianism, some Americans choose to reject modern society - Babylon as they call it - to form unlikely communities of squatters and wanderers seeking collective refuge. On a decommissioned military base in the desert, the community photographed by Bouchard lives without any form of local government and without any basic services such as running water, electric… more

Arsenal Contemporary Art is pleased to present Suzy Lake’s first solo exhibition in New York. Performance of Protest follows Lake’s five-decade spanning career, capturing her continued investigation of her own image as a means to probe and resist constructions of gender, identity and beauty. Beginning in the late 60s, Lake began documenting herself while dealing with the issues that were pressing at the time, such as the female body's relation to larger social forces, … more