Hannah Black’s “Politics” (2022) and “Broken Windows” (2022)
Based in Marseille [France], Hannah Black’s creative approach harmoniously integrates thought and emotion, through written texts, prints, videos, sculptural installations, or performances. She is most notably recognized for co-authoring alongside writer Ciarán Finlayson and critic Tobi Haslett, The Tear Gas Biennial an impactful open letter in which they critiqued, the co-chair of the Whitney Museum's board Warren Kanders, for his controversial philanthropic initiatives funded by the sale of tear gas and various weaponry through the American equipment company Safariland.
Vous les Entendez? [Do You Hear Them?]: Laura Lamiel’s Solo Exhibition at Palais de Tokyo
For more than four decades, Laura Lamiel has been crafting a body of work characterized by a unique formal consistency, delving into various states of perception, cognition, and emotion. Through the artful arrangement and juxtaposition of found objects, raw materials, colors, and lights, her creations unveil spaces that straddle both the tangible and the psychological.
Senga Nengudi: Spirit Crossing at Sprüth Magers, New York
Nengudi’s work has historically existed at the periphery of the art world - deemed too specific for the white women of the conceptual art movement to relate to, and too conceptual to be considered among other Black artists of her generation. (2) Nengudi’s remarkable body of work has resisted the confines of categorization. Consequently, its influence has spanned several decades, defying space and time - allowing itself to have applicability on varying scales - global, local, modern, and historic.
Kenturah Davis: Dark Illumination at OXY ARTS
Kenturah Davis' practice is often situated in obscure and shadowy spaces such as these, in twilight zones that evade omniscient thinking, turning our flimsy blueprint constructions of perception into slippery jello. Davis makes us sensitive to the emergent vibrations that echo in the pit of a shadow, in the shadow beneath another shadow's shadow, rippling and cascading outward and falling back in on itself.
Kazuko Miyamoto at Japan Society
Dorothea Lange: an image activist
Image Reborn: a review of Carmen Winant's "My Birth" at the MoMA
Zoe Leonard's Survey at the Whitney of American Art
Leonard’s message reminds us that America was never great. None of these issues are new, but merely more visible to those who had previously chosen to not see them.
Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 at Brooklyn Museum
As I reread my notes from last Thursday’s visit to the Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 show at the Brooklyn Museum, I slowly slip into the skin of the woman I was before entering the first room of the exhibition. I try to remember, what were my hopes like? How did I think of the world? And how many women do I still need to know about?