Pace Live: Grada Kilomba in conversation with Tina Campt
Pace Live is pleased to present Grada Kilomba in conversation with Tina Campt.
This discussion will complement Kilomba’s presentation of her sculptural installation 18 Verses (2022), in collaboration with Goodman Gallery. Drawn from Kilomba’s acclaimed large-scale installation, O Barco | The Boat (2021), a 32-meter-long sculptural slave ship memorializing the Middle Passage,18 Verses continues using the boat as a metaphor to explore the relationship between power and historical repetition. This sculptural installation reveals the silhouette of a shipwreck, alluding to migrant routes across the Mediterranean and other global waters today, while also echoing images, gestures, and sounds that insinuate a sense of historical repetition. As the artist states, “When history is not told properly, its barbarity repeats itself.”
Kilomba will be joined by black feminist theorist Tina Campt, the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of Humanities in the Department of Art and Archeology and the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. Following the discussion, we will celebrate the opening of18 Verses with a public reception from 6–8 PM.
Thursday, May 11
5 – 6 PM EDT
Doors open at 4:30 PM
7th Floor
Pace Gallery
540 West 25th Street
New York, NY
For any additional questions, please email rsvp@pacegallery.com.
Grada Kilomba’s exhibition 18 Verses is on view through July 1, 2023 at Pace Gallery New York
Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis
Pace Live is pleased to present Grada Kilomba in conversation with Tina Campt.
This discussion will complement Kilomba’s presentation of her sculptural installation 18 Verses (2022), in collaboration with Goodman Gallery. Drawn from Kilomba’s acclaimed large-scale installation, O Barco | The Boat (2021), a 32-meter-long sculptural slave ship memorializing the Middle Passage,18 Verses continues using the boat as a metaphor to explore the relationship between power and historical repetition. This sculptural installation reveals the silhouette of a shipwreck, alluding to migrant routes across the Mediterranean and other global waters today, while also echoing images, gestures, and sounds that insinuate a sense of historical repetition. As the artist states, “When history is not told properly, its barbarity repeats itself.”
Kilomba will be joined by black feminist theorist Tina Campt, the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor of Humanities in the Department of Art and Archeology and the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University. Following the discussion, we will celebrate the opening of18 Verses with a public reception from 6–8 PM.
Thursday, May 11
5 – 6 PM EDT
Doors open at 4:30 PM
7th Floor
Pace Gallery
540 West 25th Street
New York, NY
For any additional questions, please email rsvp@pacegallery.com.
Grada Kilomba’s exhibition 18 Verses is on view through July 1, 2023 at Pace Gallery New York
Seating is limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis