For Bisa Butler, “The World Is Yours,” Every Stitch at a Time


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Bisa Butler told me this week that this show took time, that the show was hard to make. And in so many ways, history takes time, takes time to understand, to reconcile, and in her practice, the Fall 2020 cover artist is stitching time, stitching eras, re-telling history with textiles, with texture, with care; and that takes time. The World Is Yours, Butler’s new solo show at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, borrows its title from a Nas lyric, and like the hip-hop artist, is creating a collage of eras, sampling, re-telling, re-imagining, and making something completely new. Textiles, quilts especially, are about passing through time, passing down through generations, and Butler is contemplating so much of what stories are told and how…

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