As part of the fine art museum’s Contemporary Projects series, the San Francisco–based artist unveils a site-specific installation that blends wall painting and printed fabric with video animation. Evoking a banyan tree grove—which, in the tree’s native India, offers canopies friendly to social gatherings—the work, situated in the building’s atrium, reflects on the space’s qualities as a free and accessible place for public action and interaction.

Rendering of “A Bright Stage” (2018) at the de Young museum.
Photo: Courtesy the artist and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.