Simone Leigh: You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
Curated by Rashida Bumbray
This
solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most
recent sculptural explorations of materiality, women’s work, and Afrofuturism. Leigh
is known for her archaic, anthropomorphic forms in porcelain, terracotta, tobacco, glass,
and steel that employ early African ceramic techniques to evoke contemporary
parallels and underlying social and economic conditions. For You Don’t Know Where Her Mouth Has Been,
Leigh draws from a diverse range of influences, from early African-American
face jugs and the manifesto of Africobra to Star Trek and Gilbert and Sullivan
in order to evocatively explore the slippages between the multifarious
cultural, political, and colonial histories that have laid claim to marginalized bodies.
Exhibition Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 12–6pm; Saturday 11–6pm
Open Sunday, March 11 from 12–6
FREE
This exhibition is made possible with support from Dedalus Foundation Inc., the Jerome Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Chitra Ganesh
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