Hyundai Terrace Commission: Kelly Akashi, Building Home
Hyundai Terrace Commission: Kelly Akashi, Building Home
Hyundai Terrace Commission: Kelly Akashi, Building Home
Hyundai Terrace Commission: Kelly Akashi, Building Home
About the Video
Artist Kelly Akashi partnered with Christian Inga and his team of masons to execute the representative installation of this year’s Hyundai Terrace Commission. Monument (Altadena) (2026) is a recreation of the artist’s Altadena chimney, rendered in luminous glass bricks and chalk-white mortar. The artist and mason sit down to discuss the tools they used to create the work and how the work embodies what home means to everyone whose hand laid and shaped each of its 821 bricks.
About the Program
The annual Hyundai Terrace Commission gives artists and curators a platform to present site-specific works on the museum’s fifth-floor terrace, as part of the Whitney’s 10-year partnership with Hyundai Motor. Artists are invited to create large-scale, experimental projects that enable them to test their aspirations, incubate their creativity, and respond to the space and the neighborhood. During the years of the Whitney Biennial (every two years), the fifth-floor terrace space will feature the commissioned work of an artist for the Hyundai Terrace Commission in conjunction with the larger Biennial exhibition.