JILL MAGID, TENDER: BALANCE, INSTALLATION VIEW, THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY, 2021. PHOTO: USEFUL ART SERVICES.
JILL MAGID, TENDER: BALANCE, INSTALLATION VIEW, THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY, 2021. PHOTO: USEFUL ART SERVICES.
JILL MAGID, TENDER: BALANCE, INSTALLATION VIEW, THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY, 2021. PHOTO: USEFUL ART SERVICES.
JILL MAGID, 2020 GLASS PATTERN PENNY, 2021. INSTALLATION VIEW IN TENDER: BALANCE, THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY, 2021. PHOTO: USEFUL ART SERVICES.
JILL MAGID, TENDER: BALANCE, INSTALLATION VIEW, THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY, 2021. PHOTO: USEFUL ART SERVICES.
JILL MAGID, 2020 CENTS / U.S. MINT BALLISTIC BAG, $4000 VALUE, PARTIALLY DISPERSED, 2021. INSTALLATION VIEW IN TENDER: BALANCE, THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY, 2021. PHOTO: USEFUL ART SERVICES.
JILL MAGID, 2020 CENTS / U.S. MINT BALLISTIC BAG, $4000 VALUE, PARTIALLY DISPERSED (DETAIL), 2021. PHOTO: USEFUL ART SERVICES.
JILL MAGID, IN CIRCULATION, 2020. INSTALLATION VIEW IN TENDER: BALANCE, THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY, 2021. PHOTO: USEFUL ART SERVICES.
Jill Magid, Tender Balance, 2021, HD video with four-channel sound, 28 min. Photography: Ramiro Chaves. Image courtesy the artist and LABOR, Mexico City.
Jill Magid, Tender Balance, 2021. HD Video with four-channel sound, 28 minutes
Image courtesy of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Photograph by Kevin Todora.

Tender Balance

Tender Balance is a multimedia body of work exploring the vulnerable relationship between the economy and human life. Expanding on Magid's 2020 public artwork Tender, in which 120,000 newly-minted 2020 pennies edge-engraved with the phrase, “THE BODY WAS ALREADY SO FRAGILE” were entered into the U.S. economy via New York City bodegas, the project consists of a series of sculptures and a film—all centering on the circulation of pennies, but unfolding with different durations and degrees of visibility. Tender Balance follows the movement of Tender pennies and some of their afterlives while thinking about absence, loss, and traces left behind.