From the ‘technicolor dreamlands’ of Lauren Halsey to the ‘booming presence’ of Jasper Marsalis's assemblages, the Hammer Museum curator reveals her top picks
This year’s Focus section features artists that make connections between land, ancestral memory and cultural identity, from Mónica Giron’s work to highlight the rapidly changing Patagonian ecosystem, to Jagdeep Raina's narratives of Sikh and Punjabi diasporas