![]() ![]() She asks us to view a picture beyond face value and removed from education, to probe further into its emotional, psychological, and sociological values. Above all, Simpson compels others to examine how they confront imagery and representation in their own lives. With a pioneering approach to conceptual photography and film, pairing images with narrative bits of text, she asks us to see beyond face value into the deeper layers of what it means to be a Black female, utilizing both her own memories and our shared history to make poignant remarks about the nature, power, and problems of representation. ![]() ![]() As an African American woman growing up in the United States, Lorna Simpson has kept her artistic gaze fixated on investigating the complex and convoluted permutations of what her particular identity ingrained upon her personal psyche and the communal consciousness of a nation bred on systemic racism. ![]()
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