The exhibition “Anatomy of Architecture” by African American sculptor Simone Leigh was inaugurated on Monday at the Agora of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC).
The exhibition, which will run until October 31, is made possible through a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
Three bronze sculptures, Vessel, Bisi and Herm, are installed in the Agora of the SNFCC in an exhibition made possible by a grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF). These works were first shown in 2023 at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. These are sculptures that are striking in their abstract form, typical examples of the work of the artist, whose work often associates the female body with domestic containers or architectural elements, focusing on unrecognised stories of care, labour, or even consumption. The exhibition of these works in the SNFCC Agora aims to bring visitors into contact (or confrontation) with the three imposing sculptural forms, offering them a powerful visual experience that reinforces the role of the SNFCC as a constantly evolving platform for Art in Public Space and the principles it is able to dynamically promote: either through an unmediated interaction or through a curated experience, contemporary art is introduced through a multifaceted program that presents the exhibition to the less initiated audience but also reintroduces the more familiar audience within a new context of integration of the works.
Over the last twenty years Simone Leigh has created a multi-faceted body of work incorporating sculpture, video, and installation, all informed by her ongoing exploration of Black female-identified subjectivity. Leigh describes her work as autoethnographic, and her sculptures often employ forms traditionally associated with African art. She is the first African American woman to represent the United States at the 2022 Venice Biennale, winning the Golden Lion for best entry in the main exhibition “ Milk of Dreams” for her monumental sculpture Brick House.
Source: pagenews.gr