In this special live episode, Dena Yago and Ben Davis discuss "Capacity", Dena's first solo show at JTT. This conversation was recorded with a live audience on Tuesday, June 6th.
Dena Yago is an artist, writer, and founding member of the trend forecasting group K-HOLE (2010-2016). Past exhibitions and presentations include Industry City, High Art, Paris, 2022; Art Basel Statements, Basel, 2021; Image Power, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, 2020; Dry Season, Derosia (Bodega), New York, 2020; Force Majeure, High Art, Paris, 2019; and Made in L.A., Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2016. Recent publications include: Fade the Lure (After Eight Books, 2019). Her writing has appeared in e-flux Journal, Flash Art, and Frieze. Yago lives and works in New York City.
Ben Davis is the author of 9.5 Theses on Art and Class (Haymarket, 2013), which ARTnews named one of the best art books of the decade in 2019, and Art in the After-Culture (Haymarket, 2022). He has been Artnet News's National Art Critic since 2016. His writings have also been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Baffler, Jacobin, Slate, Salvage, e-Flux Journal, Frieze, and many other venues. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
