William Pope.L tackles race as a ‘daily haunting’

Race relations are at the centre of a new exhibition by artist William Pope.L at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (until 5 December). In his first show with the gallery, in Los Angeles’s Culver City district, Pope.L is exhibiting more than 50 works created over the past two decades that “revolve around the idea of race as a daily haunting”, says a spokeswoman. The exhibition follows on from the success of the artist’s show at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca), Los Angeles, earlier this year, in which a huge American flag was blasted with industrial-strength fans until its ends were tattered.