{"id":9547,"date":"2026-08-18T07:12:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/exhibition\/homecoming-sanford-biggers\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T07:12:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:12:59","slug":"homecoming-sanford-biggers","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/pt\/exhibition\/homecoming-sanford-biggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Homecoming: Sanford Biggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><strong>Homecoming: Sanford Biggers <\/strong><\/i>On view: July 27, 2026 \u2013 June 27, 2027 Sanford Biggers\u2019 renewed engagement with Socrates, in celebration of the Park\u2019s 40th Anniversary, with the arrival of <i>Unsui (Mirror)<\/i>, manifests an original yet enduring exploration of movement, geometry, Buddhist cosmology, urban culture, wonder, and introspection.\u00a0 In conversation with his early public work at Socrates, <i>Terra Mandala<\/i> (2001), <i>Unsui (Mirror)<\/i> reconnects to the origins of his practice while inviting fresh intellectual and spatial dialogue. Where <i>Terra Mandala<\/i> transformed the Park into a site of dance and ritual, the cloud forms of <i>Unsui (Mirror)<\/i> engage in the stillness of reflection and contemplative movement. At Socrates, Biggers\u2019 work echoes the constant flux of tides and weather, forces that shape both the landscape and the lives of those living nearby. Installed in the context of an ongoing shoreline restoration project, the sculptures become both a meditation on environmental fragility and a celebration of communal resilience, serving as a visual metaphor for renewal, interconnectedness, and the cyclical nature of change. <a href=\"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/pt\/artist\/sanford-biggers\/\"><strong>ARTIST ARCHIVE\u00a0<\/strong><\/a> <strong>About Sanford Biggers <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sanfordbiggers.com\/\">Sanford Biggers<\/a> (born: 1970, Los Angeles, CA) is an internationally renowned artist whose work is an interplay of narrative, perspective, and history that speaks to current happenings while examining the contexts that bore them. His diverse practice positions him as a collaborator with the past through explorations of often-overlooked aesthetic, cultural, historical, and political narratives through his use of antique quilts and textiles, classical sculptures from around the world, sonic interventions, performances, and video. Biggers describes his process as \u201cconceptual patchworking,\u201d a method of transposing, combining, and juxtaposing ideas, forms, and genres that challenge traditional historiography, provenance, and official narratives to create artworks for a future ethnography.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":9548,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"exhibition-theme":[],"class_list":["post-9547","exhibition","type-exhibition","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition\/9547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibition"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"exhibition-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibition-theme?post=9547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}