Solange Knowles, sister of Beyoncé and a distinguished musician and artist in her own right, will unveil a large-scale sculpture on New York’s High Line as part of an event staged later this week by Google.
“Unfinished Projects,” as the program is called, will take over the High Line’s Chelsea Market Passage September 24–27 and is being realized with the assistance of Google Chrome. The showing will also include ballet flats designed by musician PinkPantheress and a custom chess set envisioned by NFL star Joe Burrow.
Knowles’s sculpture was inspired by a sketch made seven years ago, and “as she reignited this dormant project, Chrome became Solange’s research and production partner,” according to a spokesperson for the project, adding that she used the partnership “to study fabrication techniques and materials, and to manage the process of turning a sketch into a structure.”
A website dedicated to the project describes Knowles’s work as “designed to charge electrical conductivity through form and survey the shift in material over time when interacting with light, touch, and human energy. Solange has contemplated public sculpture as a means to extend performance to the viewer, but through the everyday, mundane gestures of occupancy.”
It continues: “She imagines the sculpture being in conversation with quiet contemplation, a study of a sunset, dialogue between two people, a backdrop for reading, or simply to exist amongst.”
Solange’s multivalent work has expanded beyond music to include performance pieces for the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the 2019 Venice Biennale, and the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, as well as other undertakings related to her creative agency Saint Heron.
