• Torkwase Dyson A Liquid Belonging. The black book is inside of a black slipcase that looks weathered.
  • The book is open to two pages. The left page is a black and white image of the artists work and the right page is an essay with a white background and black text.
  • The book is open to two pages. There are two photos of black Dyson works and an essay is across both pages. The background is white and the text is black.
  • Five copies of Torkwase Dyson a Liquid Belonging are stacked on top of each other.
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Torkwase Dyson: A Liquid Belonging

$60.00
$60.00

Featuring unconventional materials and a range of written responses from her peers, Torkwase Dyson’s first publication is an artful, indispensable volume.

Through her multidisciplinary practice guided by her working philosophy of Black Compositional Thought, Torkwase Dyson creates unique curvilinear and rectangular hypershapes and abstractions that speak to infrastructures of liberation and resistance. With its large-scale, site-specific installations and accompanying layered paintings, A Liquid Belonging, Dyson's recent exhibition at Pace Gallery in New York, explored these geometries on an architectural scale to invite viewers into new spatial and perceptual practices.

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The accompanying publication takes a similar approach, asking readers to engage with the forms and spatial actions that make up a book. Composed of one bound paper book and an array of unbound materials—including acetate and accordion-folded paper—all contained in a box-slipcase, it is as much an art object as it is an addendum to the exhibition. With new texts and experimental writing by Dionne Brand, LeRonn P. Brooks, Saidiya Hartman, Jaleh Mansoor, and Mabel O. Wilson and a conversation with Christina Sharpe, Torkwase Dyson: A Liquid Belonging takes a multifaceted approach to represent the artist’s wide influence.
Publication details

Contributors: Dionne Brand, LeRonn P. Brooks, Torkwase Dyson, Saidiya V. Hartman, Jaleh Mansoor, Mabel O. Wilson
Publisher: Pace Publishing
Slipcase paperback
10 ½ × 10 ½ in
80 pages: 48 color images
ISBN: 9781948701914
Torkwase Dyson A Liquid Belonging. The black book is inside of a black slipcase that looks weathered.
The book is open to two pages. The left page is a black and white image of the artists work and the right page is an essay with a white background and black text.
The book is open to two pages. There are two photos of black Dyson works and an essay is across both pages. The background is white and the text is black.
Five copies of Torkwase Dyson a Liquid Belonging are stacked on top of each other.

Torkwase Dyson

Torkwase Dyson describes herself as a painter working across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture. Examining human geography and the history of Black spatial liberation strategies, Dyson’s abstract works grapple with the ways in which space is perceived, imagined and negotiated particularly by black and brown bodies.

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