Lorraine O’Grady and Andrea Fraser share strategies of institutional critique, and in doing so, the two make legible their differing orientations towards museums. For O’Grady, the museum was a place that refused and ignored her presence, while for Fraser, some decades later, the museum was a site that invited her political resistance.
In a review of the retrospective Both/And, Siddhartha Mitter sings the praises of O’Grady’s deft political critique. Having developed a rapport with the artist through his repeated reviews of her work, he quotes the artist in conversation: “I am making incisions on the skin of culture” […] “it is work I’ll be doing for the rest of my life.”
Written in Spanish, Laura Revuelta reviews O’Grady’s solo exhibition “Initial Approach” at Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, Spain. The author places O’Grady in conversation with historical feminist artists and writers such as Jeanne Duval and Carmen Herrera.