The designer is selecting works that highlight Black cultural and aesthetic practices that are inspired by the styles, experiences, forms and sounds of the African diaspora.
Bonner is headlining what is the 16th installment of MoMA’s Artist’s Choice series. Her focus will be on artworks that highlight Black cultural and aesthetic practices inspired by the styles, experiences, forms and sounds of the African diaspora. In keeping the concept of “Spirit Movers,” Wales Bonner aims to relay multiple histories, prompt contemplation and conjure up new connections between people and places.
Wales Bonner is organizing “Spirit Movers” with Michelle Kuo, the Marlene Hess curator, and Dana Liljegren, curatorial assistant in the department of painting and sculpture. Wales Bonner has spent years researching the collections at MoMA. Her choices touch upon musicality, storytelling and cultural narratives. Terry Adkins’s “Last Trumpet ,” for example, is a sculptural composite of varying wind instruments, highlighting sound, performance and elegy. David Hammons’ “Afro Asian Eclipse ,” which will be on view for the first time at MoMA, combines a makeshift scroll with geometric patterns formed from tufts of hair that the artist retrieved from barbershop floors.
There are also plans for MoMA to publish a companion book for the exhibition entitled “Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm — Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection,” that has been assembled by Wales Bonner as “an archive of soulful expression” that combines poetry and imagery.
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