Sandy Williams IV creates work investigating time, memory, and endurance through monuments, sculptures, films, and public artworks. Raised in the American South, their practice is informed by Black radical imagination and explores how history accumulates within bodies, objects, and places. The Exhaustion Series (2015-2026) emerged from Williams' early experience with cancer and chemotherapy, fundamentally reshaping their relationship to temporality. In this iterative body of work, participants perform repetitive motions until complete exhaustion, referencing "the loving endurance that has carried us to this present moment." Recent major projects include 40 ACRES: CAMP BARKER and The Wax Monuments (Monument Lab), alongside the large-scale public installation 00:10:00 (Declaration of Independence) commissioned by Alexandria, Virginia. Williams' work has received international attention and continues to examine how communities preserve memory, construct meaning around cultural symbols, and navigate collective futures.
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