ART
Lorna Simpson |
Written 30 January |
Thursday 29 October, 11:00Galerie Nathalie Obadia, 75004 [map]Lorna Simpson
Galerie Nathalie Obadia presents the second solo show by
Lorna Simpson.
Lorna Simpson was born in Brooklyn (New York) in 1960 into a family strongly engaged in the fight against segregation where culture was the seen as the vital springboard of social aspiration. Having graduated from the photography department of the High School of Visual Arts in New York and the University of California at San Diego, Lorna Simpson started her career as a photojournalist. The key themes of her work were the struggle for human rights, and particularly the fight against racism and for equal rights for Blacks. Then, towards the end of the 1980s, Simpson started making works that used sound as well as images, with the inclusion of the spoken word serving to better explore these issues of racial and sexual quality, which, in those days of Affirmative Action, were key political concerns in America.
For this new exhibition, Simpson has chosen to work in a more personal way using old and recent photographs. The idea is to show the contrasting destinies of two African-American women: an anonymous figure from the middle class Los Angeles of the 1950s, and a woman living today: herself. However, Simpson is careful not to leave any clues as to the women’s personalities. Like the woman from the 1950s, the artist “poses” and takes her own photograph but does not let any feeling come across or provide any psychological clues.
| What: | Lorna Simpson |
| When: | Thursday 29 October, 11:00 |
| Where: | Galerie Nathalie Obadia, 3 rue du Cloître Saint-Merri 75004 [map] |
| Transport: | Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville |
| Cost: | 0EUR |
| Phone: | +33 (0) 1 42 74 67 68 |
| Email: | info@galerie-obadia.com |
| Web: | www.galerie-obadia.com |
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