The Whitney installation was a continuation of ideas he had explored in
a similarly minimal work executed in an out - of - the - way room at the Museum of Modern Art, as he was gradually shedding most of the trappings of an object - making artist.
While the
works included in The Acephalous Series are
similarly engaging and metaphoric, Ali has introduced new narratives with a fraught community of figures, including those with
minimal bodies, some who lack heads, or appear to be on an endless, determined trek.»