Object A, Subject B
2018
Publication in progress by Public Fiction,
with written contributions by Jared Sexton and Negar Azimi

Nicole Miller
For Now and Michael in Lavender
2018
Custom laser projections with sound,
variable lengths

Courtesy of Nicole Miller and Koenig & Clinton
Gallery. Special thanks to laserists Zak Forrest
and Pieterjan Ruysch.

Focusing on one artwork and its absence, Public Fiction stages a compact, multilayered exhibition program. Michael In Black (2018) by artist Nicole Miller consists of a bronze cast of Michael Jackson’s kneeling body. Absent from the exhibition, this talismanic object functions as a vehicle to consider contemporary concerns through the lens of pop music. Two new laser works by Miller invoke the sculpture’s original form and accompany an in-progress publication with writing by Jared Sexton and Negar Azimi, the subject of a special performance-lecture on November 12.