Meer, 2026
"I dream I cross the river in one stride" brings together the work of Clémence Gbonon, Brittney Leeanne Williams, and Autumn Wallace in an exhibition inspired by Lorraine O’Grady’s landmark essay Olympia’s Maid: Reclaiming Black Female Subjectivity. Presented at Mariane Ibrahim, the exhibition explores Black female subjectivity beyond inherited binaries, embracing complexity, embodiment, vulnerability, and self-definition. Through painting and sculpture, the artists create images that are self-authored, expansive, and resistant to fixed categories, extending O’Grady’s enduring influence on contemporary art and feminist discourse.
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