by Jon Lackman | 19 May 2006 | Contemporary
In the catalogue to the Lorna Simpson exhibition, Okwui Enwezor writes: “the black image is a troubled image; it perturbs the conscience, unsettles the tranquility of settled canons of beauty … it is foremost a political image before it could ever become a vessel for probing the epistemological fundaments of artistic tradition … Therein lies the great incentive behind Simpson’s prodigious complex analysis and usage of the black form in her work … Her work suggests that politics and aesthetics are formed like Siamese twins. And to extricate their deformed joining requires the most delicate and dexterous surgery.”
