Unpublished paragraphs on individual works in INTAR exhibit, 1991 — Written to answer FAQs about the works without prescribing viewers' responses. The photomontages were not based in Surrealist or Dada randomness. To make arguments and not just images or dreams, rational sources were twisted so unfamiliar subjective material of the "other" might enter.
Lorraine O’Grady, a pioneering African-American conceptual artist, is celebrated in her first French solo exhibition at Mariane Ibrahim Gallery. Spanning four decades, the show features iconic works like Mlle Bourgeoise Noire, Rivers, First Draft, and The Knight series, revealing her profound engagement with identity, hybridity, and cultural critique.
In Le Monde, Philippe Dagen reflects on Lorraine O’Grady’s first solo exhibition in Paris, but also the last one she prepared herself, as she passed last December, 2024. Renowned as Mlle Bourgeoise Noire, O’Grady’s fearless performances and surrealist-infused works expose colonial contradictions and gendered power, cementing her legacy as a transformative voice in contemporary art.
Loring Knoblauch considers Body Is The Ground of My Experience (1991/2019) as a “reprise” of O’Grady’s retrospective Both/And, exhibited the year prior. She suggests that the show is vital to understanding O’Grady’s late photographic prints.