“Brick House” by Simone Leigh
Artist: Simone Leigh (USA)
Title: Brick House
Year: 2019
Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022
Photo Credits: Barbara Picci
“Characterised by an interest in performativity and affect, Simone Leigh’s expansive body of work in sculpture, video, and performance parses the construction of Black femme subjectivity. Leigh’s large-scale sculptural works join forms derived from vernacular architecture and the female body, rendering them via materials and processes associated with the artistic traditions of Africa and the African diaspora, redefining notions of space, time, and existence…”
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Categories: Arte & curiosità dal mondo, Opere
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