ICA First Fridays: Lily Cox-Richard Artist Talk

Lily Cox-Richard is an artist whose sculptures and installations take up details of cultural and material histories to explore porousness, energy exchange, and paths of resistance. For their newly commissioned ICA exhibition, Disquiet in the Sand, Cox-Richard presents a series of glass scrying mirrors—divination objects used to unlock insight. Over multiple visits during full-moon cycles, the artist performed rituals that left behind impressions in the sand at White Sands, New Mexico, and other sites with complex human histories. They then used those impressions to create molds for the cast glassworks, which act as lenses, reflecting light while inviting viewers to look deeper and listen for messages that emerge from within themselves and the land.

For this talk, Cox-Richard will describe their process and interest in the divinatory practice known as scrying. They will also provide audience members with a preview of a site-specific installation they will launch in Abner Clay Park as part of InLight Festival on the weekend of October 17.

Doors open at 5 p.m. for cash bar and refreshments, talk starts at 6 p.m.

You may also like the following events from Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU:

• This Friday, 10th October, 05:00 pm, Julien Creuzet and Ana Pi: Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks in Richmond
• Next Saturday, 18th October, 12:00 pm, Mend Friend Meetup in Richmond
• Happening on, 18th April, 06:00 pm, ICA Gala in Richmond

Also check out other Arts events in Richmond, Festivals in Richmond, Exhibitions in Richmond.