Photo © Tate (Larina Fernandes)
9 rooms in Performer and Participant
Set in domestic, private or imagined spaces of safety, this display brings together works by US artists depicting Black figures in moments of repose or reflection.
Writer Kevin Quashie thinks of quiet in relation to Black life as a ‘metaphor for the full range of one’s inner life – one’s desires, ambitions, hungers, vulnerabilities, fears’. Taking his 2012 book The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture as its starting point, this display explores ‘quiet’ as a form of expression.