Talks

Attention and Testimony in Works by Lorna Simpson (virtual)

Friday, Jan 8, 2021 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
The University of Chicago, 5550 S. Greenwood, Chicago, IL 60637

Wednesday, January 6, 2 pm • RSVP
Friday, January 8, 12 pm • RSVP

 

Contemporary photographer Lorna Simpson first became known in the 1980s for work that confronted race, gender, and history.

These two participatory conversations—co-led by Sam Ramos, Art Institute educator, and Aneesah Ettress, curatorial and academic engagement intern at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art—consider Simpson’s combination of large-scale, multi-panel photographs and paired text in order to put word and image into a poetic dialogue.

 

 

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