Artist Hew Locke's GILT opens at the Met on this #FeaturedArtistFriday, and is on view in the building's Fifth Avenue facade niches through May 2023. ​​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​ The Guyanese-British artist was featured in our exhibition EN MAS', curated by Claire Tancons and Krista Thompson. In the featured work, Give and Take, Hew Locke "used the relatively confined space of [Tate Modern's] Turbine Hall to address the political economy of the recent transformation of the Notting Hill Carnival" and share his experience as gentrification, overpolicing, and displacement transformed the Caribbean-centered event. Rooted in his study of both art and political history, Locke’s practice uses juxtaposition and assemblage to study the many collisions at play in culture. He regularly works with found images and symbols, and employs humor and ornamentation as powerful conceptual political strategies.​​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​ For the Facade Commission, Locke unveils four sculptures in the shapes of whole and fragmented trophies, which reference the history of works in the Met's collection. This is the third in the Met's series of site-specific commissions for the exterior of the Museum.​​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​ 📷s: Hew Locke, Give and Take, performance, August 23, 2014, Tate Modern, London. Photograph: Akiko Ota. Installation view, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, 2015. Installation view, National Art Gallery of the Bahamas, 2016. (Photo: Marlon Griffith) Hew Locke​​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​ #CuratorsIntl #ICIExhibitions #EnMas' @themetmuseum @hewdjlocke