Didier William | That Bodily Space Definition, That Communing of Worlds

Steven Vargas

Figures leap mid-air, far away from the ground and in unidentifiable locations, contorting just within the realm of recognizability and hovering outside the realm of public understanding, Didier William’s bodies comprise a complex artistic vocabulary that has, over the course of the years, begun to articulate a more concrete sense of place, time and space.

In William’s newest exhibition at Altman Siegel in San Francisco, Beyond the Bodies’ Edge, William’s famed figures land, finally, on identifiable ground.