Several exhibitions and mainly Simone Leigh, an artist we met at the Venice Biennale last year. Gigantic women, eyes missing, arms missing, always powerful messages around women, mainly black women, and the female body. Another interesting art piece was a table set for eight where you can sit on the chairs, and lights sway around, changing the colour of the plates. Unimpressed by María Berrío : The Children’s Crusade and Taylor Davis Selects : Invisible Ground of Sympathy. A beautiful museum with a view of Boston’s harbour and a gigantic glass elevator, but I didn’t find there was much to see, or we missed part of it.
“For over two decades, Leigh has embraced a polyphonic artistic vocabulary that elaborates on Black feminist thought, an intellectual tradition which values and centers the experiences of Black women. Informed by a rigorous attention to a wide swath of historical periods, geographies, and artistic traditions of Africa and the African diaspora, Leigh often combines the female body with domestic vessels or architectural elements to point to unacknowledged acts of labor and care, particularly among and for Black women.”