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The Hugo Boss Prize 2018: Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat
April 19-October 27, 2019
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
(NEW YORK, NY, April 18, 2019)?From April 19 to October 27, 2019, an exhibition of new work by artist Simone Leigh, winner of the 2018 Hugo Boss Prize, will be on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Leigh’s presentation will include new sculptures and a sound installation, as well as a printed broadsheet by cultural historian Saidiya Hartman and a film program featuring works by the artist and by director Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich. Selected by a jury of international critics and curators, Leigh is the twelfth artist to receive the biennial prize, which was established in 1996 to recognize significant achievement in contemporary art.
The Hugo Boss Prize 2018: Simone Leigh, Loophole of Retreat is organized by Katherine Brinson, Daskalopoulos Curator, Contemporary Art, and Susan Thompson, Associate Curator, with Amara Antilla, Assistant Curator. The Hugo Boss Prize and the exhibition are made possible by HUGO BOSS.
Over the course of a career that spans the mediums of sculpture, video, and social practice, Leigh has continuously and insistently centered on the black female experience. Her sculptural forms, rendered in materials such as ceramic, raffia, and bronze, unify a timeless beauty with valences that are both deeply personal and piercingly political. In this exhibition, on view in the Guggenheim’s Tower Level 5 gallery, Leigh layers form, sound, and text to fashion narratives of resilience and resistance. Loophole of Retreat, the title of the project and related public program, is a phrase drawn from the writings of Harriet Jacobs, a formerly enslaved abolitionist who in 1861 pseudonymously published an account of her struggle to achieve freedom, including the seven years she spent hiding from her master in a tiny crawl space beneath the rafters of her grandmother’s home. This act of defiant fortitude, which forged a “loophole of retreat” from an unjust reality, serves as a touchstone for Leigh’s long-standing commitment to honoring the agency of black women and their power to inhabit worlds of their own creation.
In a suite of new sculptures, Leigh merges the human body with domestic vessels or architectural elements that evoke unacknowledged acts of female labor and care. These works summon the ancient archetype of the nude statue and inflect it with folk traditions from across the African diaspora as well as with historical references ranging from bronzes produced in the Benin kingdom (present-day Nigeria) to the portraiture of seventeenth-century Spanish painter Diego Velazquez. As such, they emerge from what the artist refers to as a process of “formal creolization,” channeling the cultural fluidity that is a legacy of colonialism. The faces of Leigh’s bronze sculptures are depicted without eyes, while another work features an abstracted torso assembled from a clay pipe. This refusal of a reciprocal gaze endows each figure with a resolute autonomy.
Leigh’s prevailing themes of self-determination and communal caretaking are expanded upon in a sound installation that emanates from the back of the gallery. A concrete structure, composed of breeze-block walls characteristic of vernacular buildings throughout the Global South, recalls both a prison cell and a shrine. A sound montage echoes through the space, layering musical samples with other elements, including recordings of a recent protest at a Brooklyn prison and news coverage of the 1985 fatal police bombing of the residence of MOVE, a Philadelphia-based black revolutionary organization. Created in collaboration with experimental musician Moor Mother, this work of “sonic protection,” as Leigh terms it, pays homage to a member of MOVE who was incarcerated in 1978 while eight-months pregnant. After she secretly delivered her son, her fellow prisoners sang and made distracting sounds to conceal his arrival from the guards, ultimately granting the new mother a few precious days with her baby. Within Leigh’s installation sits a ceramic sculpture?a medium that has been central to the artist since the outset of her career. Echoing the expansive skirts seen in the central gallery, this bell-like form is adorned with a woven motif that resembles braided hair or sutures in skin.
The narrative of Harriet Jacobs is one of many evoked by cultural historian Saidiya Hartman in a new text that grew out of a dialogue with Leigh. Available in the gallery as a takeaway broadsheet designed by artist Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Hartman’s “Notes for the Riot” renders a rich poetics of black feminist revolt and transcendence, one that reverberates throughout the exhibition.
An accompanying film program in the museum’s New Media Theater includes works by the artist and by director Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich. Drawing upon the history of the United Order of Tents?a clandestine organization of black women nurses founded in the 1840s by individuals involved in the Underground Railroad?these works explore notions of secrecy, visibility, and community. Leigh is currently producing a site-specific film conceived as a meditation on the unique architectural form of the Guggenheim’s rotunda as it intersects with the themes of Loophole of Retreat. This new work will debut as an element of the film program during the run of the exhibition.
In October 2018 Leigh was selected as the winner of the Hugo Boss Prize from a short list of six finalists that also included Bouchra Khalili, Teresa Margolles, Emeka Ogboh, Frances Stark, and Wu Tsang. The members of the 2018 jury were Dan Fox, Editor-at-Large, Frieze magazine; Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy, Director, Witte de With, Rotterdam; the late Bisi Silva, former Artistic Director, Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos; Susan Thompson, Associate Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Joan Young, Director, Curatorial Affairs, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The 2018 jury was chaired by Nancy Spector, Artistic Director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. For the full jury statement, visit guggenheim.org/press.
Film Program
Loophole of Retreat
Daily, April 19?October 27, 3 pm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New Media Theater
An extension of Simone Leigh’s presentation on Tower Level 5, this film program premieres a new iteration of Leigh’s video work Untitled (M*A*S*H) (2018?19) and two shorts directed by Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich.
Untitled (M*A*S*H), 2018?19
Directed by Simone Leigh, 11 min.
Depicting a mobile medical theater amid a wartime environment that the artist equates with the lived experience of black women, Untitled (M*A*S*H) renders a space of healing and care in reference to the United Order of Tents?a secretive organization of black female nurses founded in the 1840s by individuals involved in the Underground Railroad. The film amplifies Leigh’s frequent theme of communal protection, capturing quiet moments of reprieve and restoration as women perform acupuncture, recite blessings, make music, and keep watch.
Black Composer Trilogy, Part I: A Quality of Light, 2018
Directed by Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, 7 min. 59 sec.
A Quality of Light is the first part of Hunt-Ehrlich’s Black Composer Trilogy, which draws on her family’s history to shed light on untold stories of black women artists. This film weaves together archival footage and quotes by writer and political revolutionary Aime Cesaire with scenes that foreground the effects of aging on the director’s grandmother, who was a prolific composer.
Spit on the Broom, 2019
Directed by Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, 11 min. 21 sec.
Inspired by Hunt-Ehrlich’s working trips with Leigh to visit with the women of the United Order of Tents, Spit on the Broom is a surreal documentary that moves between re-creations of recorded events and lyrical evocations of latent aspects of African American women’s history. At the heart of the film are encounters with the women of the United Order of Tents, who express the group’s core value of self-determination for its members and constituents.
Screenings take place in the New Media Theater, Level B, and are free with admission. For more information and the schedule, visit guggenheim.org/films.
Public Program
“Loophole of Retreat”: A Conference
Saturday, April 27, 1 pm
This daylong gathering dedicated to the intellectual life of black women will bring together an international constellation of writers, artists, poets, filmmakers, and activists. Artist and Hugo Boss Prize 2018 winner Simone Leigh, feminist scholar Tina Campt (Barnard College), and cultural historian Saidiya Hartman (Columbia University) have invited a distinguished group of participants to present papers, performances, and conversations on subjects of their choosing. Presenters include Vanessa Agard-Jones, Rizvana Bradley, Dionne Brand, Andrianna Campbell, Aimee Meredith Cox, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Grada Kilomba, Lorraine O’Grady, Okwui Okpokwasili, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Christina Sharpe, Francoise Verges, and Simone White.
Sold out. Day-of ticket sales will be available on a first-come, first-served basis, $15, $10 members, $5 students. A video recording of the conference will be published on the museum’s website after the event. For more information, visit guggenheim.org/calendar.
Publication
The Guggenheim’s publication The Hugo Boss Prize 2018 comprises a compilation of six foldout posters, one for each nominated artist. Each poster features a work by a nominated artist on one side, with an essay about the artist’s practice by an acclaimed writer or thinker on the reverse. Including texts by Diana Nawi; Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi; Taiyana Pimentel; Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts; Frances Stark and an anonymous associate; and Fred Moten, boychild, and Wu Tsang, the posters are presented within a slipcase along with an introduction by Susan Thompson, Associate Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and a foreword by Dr. Hjordis Kettenbach, Head of Cultural Affairs, HUGO BOSS AG. Designed by Alex Lin of Studio Lin, New York, the publication is available for $40 from the Guggenheim Store or online at guggenheimstore.org.
Simone Leigh
Simone Leigh (b. 1967, Chicago) lives and works in Brooklyn. Solo presentations of her work have been hosted at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Marcus Garvey Park, New York (organized by the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; both 2016?17); New Museum, New York (2016); Atlanta Contemporary Art Center; Stuyvesant Mansion, Brooklyn (organized by Creative Time, New York; both 2014); and The Kitchen, New York (2012). In 2018 Simone Leigh was selected to create the High Line Plinth’s inaugural commission, which will be on view later this year. The artist’s work will be featured in the upcoming Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and has previously been including presentations such as the Berlin Biennial (2018); Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon, New Museum, New York (2017?18); Unconventional Clay: Engaged in Change, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (2016); Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City (2015?16); Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (traveled to Grey Art Gallery, New York University; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco [2012?15]); The Dakar Biennial (2014); Whitney Biennial (2012); 30 Seconds Off an Inch, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2009?10); The Future as Disruption, The Kitchen, New York; and Intersections: Defensive Mechanisms, Abrons Art Center, New York (both 2008). Her work has been recognized with awards and honors from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York (2018); Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2017); A Blade of Grass, New York (2016); John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York (both 2016); Creative Capital, New York (2012); and the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2011).
Hugo Boss Prize History
Since its inception in 1996, the Hugo Boss Prize has been awarded to twelve innovative and influential contemporary artists: Matthew Barney (1996), Douglas Gordon (1998), Marjetica Potr? (2000), Pierre Huyghe (2002), Rirkrit Tiravanija (2004), Tacita Dean (2006), Emily Jacir (2008), Hans-Peter Feldmann (2010), Danh Vo (2012), Paul Chan (2014), Anicka Yi (2016), and Simone Leigh (2018). The related exhibitions have constituted some of the most compelling presentations in the museum’s history. Previous finalists include Laurie Anderson, Janine Antoni, Cai Guo-Qiang, Stan Douglas, and Yasumasa Morimura in 1996; Huang Yong Ping, William Kentridge, Lee Bul, Pipilotti Rist, and Lorna Simpson in 1998; Vito Acconci, Maurizio Cattelan, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, Tom Friedman, Barry Le Va, and Tunga in 2000; Francis Alys, Olafur Eliasson, Hachiya Kazuhiko, Koo Jeong-a, and Anri Sala in 2002; Franz Ackermann, Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij, Rivane Neuenschwander, Simon Starling, and Yang Fudong in 2004; Allora & Calzadilla, John Bock, Damian Ortega, Aida Ruilova, and Tino Sehgal in 2006; Christoph Buchel, Patty Chang, Sam Durant, Joachim Koester, and Roman Signer in 2008; Cao Fei, Roman Ondak, Walid Raad, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul in 2010; Trisha Donnelly, Rashid Johnson, Qiu Zhijie, Monika Sosnowska, and Tris Vonna-Michell in 2012; Sheela Gowda, Camille Henrot, Hassan Khan, and Charline von Heyl in 2014; Tania Bruguera, Mark Leckey, Ralph Lemon, Laura Owens, and Wael Shawky in 2016, and Bouchra Khalili, Teresa Margolles, Emeka Ogboh, Frances Stark, and Wu Tsang in 2018.
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