Contemporary artists revisit Warhol's 1985 love letter to America
Originally published in 1985, Warhol's America features photographs
both taken and collected by the artist during his cross-country travels
and in-person encounters over the previous decade. The book, an
idiosyncratic love letter to America, finds Warhol reflecting on
everything from travel, beauty and fame to politics, technology and the
American Dream. Three decades later, Fantasy America invites artists
Nona Faustine, Kambui Olujimi, Pacifico Silano, Naama Tsabar and Chloe
Wise to revisit this seminal publication and contribute their own art.
All New York-based, they, like Warhol, are cross-disciplinary artists
drawn to repetition, seriality and image appropriation in their work.
Against the backdrop of nationwide protests in the wake of George
Floyd's murder, the Black Lives Matter movement, the COVID-19 pandemic
and the presidential election, these essays and artworks probe and
challenge our perceptions of what America is and what it can become.