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To be frank, much of the challenging terrain before us is explicitly political terrain. We live in a time of war. We live in a time of political divisiveness. We live in a time when the struggles for power at home–over issues of race, of corporate power, of the environment, of faith matters, of gender, and of so much more mirror similar struggles that span the globe.

Enter the curators and artists of the Whitney Biennial. Art is made in the world and of the world, not in some distant isolated space of quiet reflection. If these are confusing times, then the works of the Biennial are perplexing as well. If we face rocky terrain, then these works give us a disconcerting map that is hard to read, and on which the roads are hard to find. If our troubles are in part political, then so too are the works of “Day for Night.”