Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-169).
Contents:
Liminal spaces: A conversation between Valerie Cassel Oliver and Dawoud Bey Christina Sharpe -- A river runs through us / Imani Perry -- Stony the road -- 350,000 -- In this place / Leronn P. Brooks -- In this here place -- Evergreen -- Dear Dawoud / Christina Sharpe -- Night coming tenderly, Black -- Liminal spaces: A conversation between Valerie Cassel Oliver and Dawoud Bey
Summary:
"Dawoud Bey focuses on the landscape to create a portrait of the early African American presence in the United States. Renowned for his Harlem street scenes and expressive portraits, Dawoud Bey continues his ongoing series on African American history. Elegy brings together Bey's three landscape series to date--Night Coming Tenderly, Black (2017); In This Here Place (2021); and Stoney the Road (2023)--elucidating the deep historical memory still embedded in the geography of the United States. Bey takes viewers to the historic Richmond Slave Trail in Virginia, where Africans were marched onto auction blocks; to the plantations of Louisiana, where they labored; and along the last stages of the Underground Railroad in Ohio, where fugitives sought self-emancipation. Essays by the exhibition's curator, Valerie Cassel Oliver, and scholars LeRonn P. Brooks, Imani Perry, and Christina Sharpe illuminate the work. By interweaving these bodies of work into an elegy in three movements, Bey doesn't merely evoke history, he retells it through historically grounded images that challenge viewers to go beyond seeing and imagine lived experiences"-- Provided by publisher.
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