One of the most acclaimed recent chroniclers of the conditions, experience and expressions of Black life, Jafa's work is part of a current of work at the fair
examining urgent contemporary
questions of justice and identity - including the Chicago - based Theaster Gates, famed for his direct interventions into the city's South Side, whose work is given the solo treatment at the fair by Richard Gray Gallery (A1).
Written during a stay in a remote Swiss mountain hamlet, Baldwin's text
examines complex and
urgent questions around blackness, culture, and history.