Willie Cole's "Mind, Body, and Soul" at Sargent's Daughters

Willie Cole's solo exhibition "Mind, Body, and Soul" at Sargent's Daughters in New York runs through July 10. The show combines new works with pieces from the past two decades, featuring assemblages made from repurposed shoes, musical instruments, and plastic bottles. Works like "Tiger Lilly" (2025) and "Fly Girl" (2016) use stilettos to evoke African masking traditions, while "Survivors Series I (Wall Assemblages)" (2026) arranges hundreds of crushed water bottles into a diptych relief. Cole's practice explores history, consumerism, and environmentalism by removing objects from their usual contexts.