this study adds to African diasporic art history by recentering the quotidian.
[…]
Most important, this book builds on the belief that while Black image makers operate in contexts in which their visibility and invisibility within dominant structures of meaning and value endlessly fluctuate, there has always been a rich tradition of visuality among Black viewers, creatives, and patrons, for whom a Black tradition of the visual is centrally located in the quotidian. As scholars of African American studies
A nimble arc : James Van Der Zee and photography / Emilie Boone
may term this space as part of a Black interiority, this book is indebted to a commitment to understanding the ordinary as part of the extraordinary, a space that reflects the richness of Black quotidian life.
Category: studio
AG2024_1133719b que anima e impulsiona

em uma forma… que anima e impulsiona
Carmen Argote uses her own body as a prism to metabolize her surroundings. Walking and exploring environs—familiar and foreign—are seminal to her practice. Commonwealth and Council
Jill Magid – The entrance to the booth is framed by an installation of Market Flowers, fresh-cut from open-air markets near the center of Paris, diverted from circulation and recontextualized as art.
Collage de deux formes et de deux espaces, entrelacés par une pluie acide et accessoirisés de voiles en dentelle, de boas et de charms, Lies poursuit les recherches conceptuelles et formelles de Mimosa Echard sur la photographie en tant que médium intrinsèquement vulnérable, à la fois surface pénétrée et théâtre de projections artificielles. En juxtaposant les « architectures du plaisir » des deux derniers siècles — le fantasme d’un safe space sans radiations et les origines de l’expérience urbaine consumériste — l’artiste examine l’érotisme de la chair contemporaine et son désir inéluctable de devenir image. Crousel
Pour cette première exposition personnelle au Centre Pompidou (elle a déjà présenté ses œuvres à Montréal, Varsovie, Los Angeles, La Havane ou Istanbul), Gaëlle Choisne propose un voyage temporel et sensoriel dans un espace recomposé. Au sol, des concrétions de liège teintes en noir, façon plage volcanique ; aux murs, de grands panneaux peints où s’agrègent divers éléments collectés. Et au centre, des sortes de « ruches », elles aussi en liège, depuis lesquelles sont projetées des images vidéo. Avec cette installation hybride, qui est aussi « un îlot, un archipel, un lieu où différentes réalités se cumulent pour être réinventées et réparées », l’artiste nous invite à « changer de perspective sur le monde et devenir l’observateur de sa propre espèce ». Centre Pompidou
AG2024_1123094a or saving yourself, and ask yourself what
Remember how,
from the first emptiness,
you started saving yourself,
and ask yourself what,
after all,
these words are good for
You, If No One Else, Tino Villanueva
OK, Villanueva! Dash Alumni, 30! (20)
Document080924-page009 or a lexicon of wilds
Consider: the verbal dearth
that is always a main ripple of extinction.
The lexicon of wilds goes on nixing its descriptions.
Slimming its index of references
for what is
super as a rhubarb, and juicy
as a peach,or sunken as a
comb and ancient as an alder tree, or
conifer, or beech, what is royal
as jelly, dark as a wintering
hive, toxic as the jessamine vine
who weeps the way a willow does,
silently as wax
burned in the land of milk and
all the strong words in poems,
they were once
smeared on the mandible of a bee.
Playing with Bees, RK Fauth
Document080924-page006 or in repose, distinct

… to find
what’s not found
at once, but lies
within something of another nature,
in repose, distinct.
– Denise Levertov, Pleasures.
AG2024_1123227a or presence of dances invisible to me
moved somewhere that you never expected to

7:41 … the best thing a work of art can do is take your mind with it moving somewhere that you never expected to
30:14 … noticing small things makes a difference
– Anne Carson
Gloves on!, Anne Carson. LRB.
AG2024_1122736a
Rebecca Horn, Labyrinth of the Soul: Drawings 1965-2015. Sean Kelly, New York, January 7 – February 18, 2023.
“From around 2003-2015, Horn produced an impressive group of large-scale works referred to as Bodylandscape, paintings on paper that extended her interest in the body as machine into an autobiographical, performative arena. Incorporating pencil, acrylic, and watercolor and gouache with text, these energetic works are scaled to the artist’s own proportions, defined by the limit to which her arms could extend when building the sometimes-frenzied compositions through the movements and actions of her own body.”





