The show “FOCUS: Jill Magid” opens this Friday, January 21th at The Modern Fort Worth. The artist will show the film “Tender Balance” alongside related works that expand upon her 2020 https://creativetime.org/tender-jill-magid/Creative Time public artwork, “Tender”.

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, the artist noticed a stark difference in the way public figureheads seemed to perceive the value of people’s lives compared to that of the nation’s economy. For Tender, Jill Magid disseminated 120.000 newly minted 2020 pennies engraved with the phrase “THE BODY WAS ALREADY SO FRAGILE.” Passages of the film Tender Balance underscore the human connections that turned rife with anxiety and fear throughout the pandemic. The film follows the path the coins led from the mint to the individual—a course not unlike that of a pathogen—reflecting on systems of circulation on both intimate and grand scales.

For this new chapter at the Modern, Magid will present “Labor Days”, a new body of work that includes drawings and sculptural installations.