Among the artists in Hiding in Plain Sight are Yto Barrada, Sam Gilliam, Tony Lewis, Trevor Paglen, Jessica Vaughn, Rayyane Tabet, Simon Denny, and Fred Wilson. Curated by Pace senior director and curator Andria Hickey, the exhibition meditates on the ways that systems, narratives, meanings, and histories might be overlooked or obfuscated. The presentation—which includes paintings, videos, sculptures, and works of other mediums—aims to make visible the enduring and interconnected effects of colonialism, capitalism, and border maintenance, among other topics.
In an accompanying essay titled Infrastructural Aesthetics: Minimalism in the Information Age, Hickey writes that “minimal—and often opaque—objects point to specific subjects that reveal, question, and challenge the hidden connective tissues of infrastructural systems. As if secreted into the means of their making, information can be imbued within the object itself.”