Simone Leigh's practice incorporates sculpture, video and installation, all informed by her ongoing exploration
of black female subjectivity and ethnography.
Simone Leigh's practice is an object - based ongoing exploration
of black female subjectivity.
Simone Leigh's practice focuses on an exploration
of black female subjectivity, informed by her interest in African art, ethnographic research, feminism and performance.
Simone Leigh describes her practice as «an object - based on - going exploration
of black female subjectivity.
Working across ceramics, sculpture, video, installation, and social practice, Simone Leigh examines the construction
of black female subjectivity and economies of self - preservation and exchange.
Working in ceramics, sculpture, video, installation, and social practice, Simone Leigh (b. 1967, Chicago) examines the construction
of black female subjectivity and economies of preservation and exchange.
The exhibition seeks to explore the possibility of different, critical engagements with geography through the lens
of black female subjectivities and feminisms.
Not exact matches
There have since been 25 dinners that have explored themes like Baltimore, Race, and Identity (in honor
of Freddy Gray); the 2016 shootings in Orlando and the need for sanctuary spaces;
Black Female Subjectivity;
Black Male
Subjectivity; and Racial Subjugation in Latin American History.
Neptune creates counter-narratives which examine pedagogies
of resistance,
black subjectivity and the nuances
of identity construction amongst marginalized
female bodies
of color.
One
of their key concerns is to make visible the work
of black women artists and
black female subjectivities, to counteract forces that seek to make them and their community invisible or unseen.
Lorraine O'Grady presents a reading
of Olympia's Maid: Reclaiming
Black Female Subjectivity as part
of the Future Feminism show at The Hole, New York.
Lorraine O'Grady is an artist and critic whose installations, performances, and texts address issues
of diaspora, hybridity, and
black female subjectivity.
Through a convergence
of interest in anthropology, science fiction,
black female subjectivity and women's work, her art explores the humor and fantasy involved in self - making within diasporic societies, which have an ability to live with cultural ambiguities and use them to build psychological and even metaphysical defenses against cultural invasions.
Often employing her own autobiography to consider
black female subjectivities and identity construction within the social and political structures
of art and the world at large, O'Grady brings sharp focus to the experience
of aging.
Over the course
of more than three decades, artist and cultural critic Lorraine O'Grady has won acclaim for her installations, performances and texts addressing the subjects
of diaspora, hybridity and
black female subjectivity.