Diana Al-Hadid’s Suspended Reality | ART21 “New York Close Up“

How does an artist resist reality? In this film, artist Diana Al-Hadid creates sculptures and drawings that embrace illusionism and the unknown, culminating in the exhibition “The Vanishing Point“ (2012) at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. “I want to explore the limits of my own thinking,“ says Al-Hadid. The artist begins with a careful study of her materials—wax, clay, fiberglass, and bronze—and then experiments in her Williamsburg studio, getting the materials to “misbehave.“ Looking to Renaissance an