More likely to quote cultural theory than Beyoncé songs, this home-schooled, high-achieving Los Angeleno prefers to take her art out of the gallery to where everyone really hangs out – the internet – even if it brings along the haters
Walking into Martine Syms’s first solo UK show, Fact & Trouble at the ICA, feels like walking into someone else’s memories: a disconcerting mix of the familiar and the foreign.
Arrows point up a narrow, poorly lit stairwell which opens up into a bright white floor. In the small corridor that separates two rooms, enlarged pictures and video stills plaster the walls. These images are part of Syms’s 2016 work, Misdirected Kiss, and appear in what seems to be no particular order; an imperfect tapestry of moments in other people’s lives.
I don’t think art is the most effective form of protest. I don’t think it changes policy
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