Derrick Adams' solo exhibition “Come as You Are” will open at Gagosian Beverly Hills on Sept. 14.
For a person who depicts leisure in their work,” Adams quipped during a recent Zoom interview, “for me, leisure is working!”
“These are things that have sustained us in our society,” he explained. “If we did not have these things — these barbecues and baby showers and christenings — we would be in a very different place than we are right now, and not a place that we would feel good about. In the face of adversity, a lot of these things that we’re doing are really giving us that sense of normalcy.”
In the past, you’ve said that you consider it “a deliberate political act” to represent the Black experience in a way that “centers the celebratory.” Why do you feel it’s important to do so?If you think about all the turmoil, struggle, strife and challenges that happen to Black people on a daily basis, you would think that we wouldn’t even have time to even think about this term — Black joy.
In recent years, we’ve seen the rise of social media phenomena like #BlackBoyJoy specifically focusing on Black males expressingAs male figures, we’re taught to be guarded — even more so within Black culture. We have this social construct that you have to walk a certain way, you have to express yourself in a certain way. And now, we have a new generation of millennials, and even Gen X, who are really emotional and they express themselves and they cry and they tell you how they’re feeling.
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