Torkwase Dyson : A Liquid Belonging
Cover of Torkwase Dyson: A Liquid Belonging, 2022 © Pace Gallery
Torkwase Dyson’s first publication is an artful, indispensable volume. The book features unconventional materials and a range of written responses from her peers.
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Through her multidisciplinary practice guided by her working philosophy of Black Compositional Thought, Torkwase Dyson creates unique curvilinear and rectangular hyper shapes and abstractions that speak to infrastructures of liberation and resistance. With its large-scale, site-specific installations and accompanying layered paintings, A Liquid Belonging, Dyson's recent exhibition at Pace Gallery in New York, explored these geometries on an architectural scale to invite viewers into new spatial and perceptual practices.
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The accompanying publication takes a similar approach, asking readers to engage with the forms and spatial actions that make up a book. Composed of one bound paper book and an array of unbound materials—including acetate and accordion-folded paper—all contained in a box-slipcase, it is as much an art object as it is an addendum to the exhibition. With new texts and experimental writing by Dionne Brand, LeRonn P. Brooks, Saidiya Hartman, Jaleh Mansoor, and Mabel O. Wilson and a conversation with Christina Sharpe, Torkwase Dyson: A Liquid Belonging takes a multifaceted approach to represent the artist’s wide influence.
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PUBLICATION DETAILS:
Text by Dionne Brand, LeRonn P.
Brooks, Torkwase Dyson, Saidiya V.
Hartman, Jaleh Mansoor, Mabel O.
Wilson Conversation with Torkwase Dyson
and Christina Sharpe Design by Tomo Makiura and Alexis
Liebes Hardcover
Slipcase paperback
80 pages
10 ½ × 10 ½ in
For more information about the book visit here, and for the exhibit, visit here. For more information about other titles from Pace Publishing, visit here; please visit the Pace Gallery’s website here for more information about past, current, and future exhibits. Pace Gallery can be found on Instagram and Artsy, too.
