Kapwani Kiwanga: Off-Grid
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Author: Kiwanga, Kapwani
Over the past decade, Kapwani Kiwanga has created complex installations, sculptures, performance lectures and films that consider marginalised histories and colonial economies. Drawing from her training in anthropology and the social sciences, Kiwanga’s ethereal environments bring attention to the back stories of systems of authority and their embodied effects. This catalogue provides one of the most complete overviews of Kiwanga's work in sculpture and installation. Inspired by the early 18th-century New York legal codes known as 'lantern laws' (ordinances that required all Black, Indigenous or mixed-race individuals over 14 to carry lanterns or lit candles after dark if not accompanied by a white person), her new commission for the New Museum weaves together different layers of opacity and transparency through the use of large-scale curtains and mirrored surfaces, playing with natural light and darkness.
ISBN 9780915557998. New Museum. pb. 196 pages. 66 colour ills. 25 x 18 cm.
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Over the past decade, Kapwani Kiwanga has created complex installations, sculptures, performance lectures and films that consider marginalised histories and colonial economies. Drawing from her training in anthropology and the social sciences, Kiwanga’s ethereal environments bring attention to the back stories of systems of authority and their embodied effects. This catalogue provides one of the most complete overviews of Kiwanga's work in sculpture and installation. Inspired by the early 18th-century New York legal codes known as 'lantern laws' (ordinances that required all Black, Indigenous or mixed-race individuals over 14 to carry lanterns or lit candles after dark if not accompanied by a white person), her new commission for the New Museum weaves together different layers of opacity and transparency through the use of large-scale curtains and mirrored surfaces, playing with natural light and darkness.
ISBN 9780915557998. New Museum. pb. 196 pages. 66 colour ills. 25 x 18 cm.
available