“Joseph Buckley: Traitor Muscle”

This newly commissioned installation by Art In General represents the first solo outing in NYC for Buckley, a biracial British artist with roots in Ireland and the Caribbean. This background accounts, perhaps, for the reason his work delves into the conjoined legacies of slavery, colonialism and fascism. With walls covered in silver foil, floors painted red and green, and elements that include a group of robotic figures stacked up like cordwood, the piece evokes a sci-fi collision of slave ship, Amazon fulfillment center and Andy Warhol’s Factory.