How, in 2021, do Black people occupy and interact within personal, public, institutional, and psychic space? This is the central concern ofa new show at Gagosian curated by the writer and art critic Antwaun Sargent.
“The goal of Project EATS is to supply fresh produce to under-resourced communities, and this has been going on for the last decade,” Sargent says. “That’s what I mean when I say the show is about this moment, but it’s also about history. Yes, in this moment a lot of great communal efforts are happening, but there’ve been communities that have had to band together and do that work for a very long time.
Alexandria Smith, a NXTHVN alumna who now leads the M.A. program in painting at London’s Royal College of Art, describes her practice as a constant re-evaluation of selfhood through a panoply of genderless humanoid figures. “They’re like physical manifestations of the various experiences that people face as they’re trying to understand and develop their identities,” she explains.
Like Smith, Neptune doesn’t take her placement in the Gagosian show for granted. “Being a part of this is definitely a humbling experience. It is a reflection of all of the efforts of artists who have come before me, and who have worked so diligently to open the doors and pave the path for younger artists like myself to have a chance to be seen within this field,” the says. In its way, the experience is “very surreal, out-of-body, otherworldly—very sci-fi.
Probably, just about, like everyone else.
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