Images from 'Ellen Gallagher: Accidental Records,' in which the artist continues her exploration of the complex histories of the Black Atlantic and the afterlives of the Middle Passage. Widely associated with a resurgence in this diasporic critical space, Gallagher has developed her own genre of history painting which makes us question our geographies. The slowly layered surfaces of her work become a kind of reckoning, the way sailors mark their locations at sea, determined to return.⠀ ⠀ Essayist Adrienne Edwards writes, "Whether through her playful photomontages, or glistening veneered black paintings, or chromatic Sea Bed paintings, Ellen Gallagher provides vectors to consider the ways in which abstraction, Orientalist genre painting, and desire converge as portraits of historical, social and personal imaginaries. Her speculative approach sieves a broad range of seemingly incommensurable references as concrete fragments that we cannot easily trace or fully comprehend, but nevertheless, must. She engages the paradoxes she sets up and upon which she depends through a mode of archaeological extraction of history and matter. In her artworks, Gallagher relies upon what she has described as a 'jitter,' a mode of becoming in which radical aesthetic possibilities emerge from seismic cracks in the surface of things; connoting unsteady movement, unreliability, impossible alignments, blind spots and opacity as a means of escape and flight."⠀ ⠀ Published by @hauserwirth⠀ Text by Adrienne Edwards, Philip Hoare.⠀ ⠀ #blackvoicesmatter Please support #blackownedbusiness and buy from a #blackownedbookstore directly (see linkinbio for a list by city) or order through many of these stores via Bookshop.org⠀ ⠀ #ellengallagher @adynyc #accidentalrecords #middlepassage https://www.instagram.com/p/CBQgSP2psZi/?igshid=4ygh0b9picv9
