Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Black people want/irony

2021. Color Inverted Photograph Archival Inkjet Print on Hahnemühle
Photo Rag Baryta 315gsm. 10 x 8 in.

Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s Black people want/irony is a color-inverted photograph of a preparatory arrangement for her site-specific installation Each sentence is a sponge!, commissioned for Kissing through a Curtain (on view at MASS MoCA through October 2021). In this body of work, Rasheed arranges fragments of letters and words throughout galleries, to explore translation as a politics and poetics of intimacy and approximation, offering polyvocal and multidirectional readings of a single sentence.