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Ling Ma Reads Nicole Krauss

The New Yorker: Fiction

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What's Your Favorite Piece of Artwork?

One of my favorite artworks is one of Felique Sconzalez Torres's piles of candy. The pile of candy is calibrated to the artist's lover who passed of AIDS. And so you think about this body that diminishes and wastes away. But at the same time, like these multicolored foil wrapped pieces of candy, it's so celebratory. So you have both ends of the spectrum, that sense of something dying, and a sense of something festive and celebratory happening.

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