You Have Fallen From Grace is an installation comprised of sculpture, video and ready-mades that uses gestures, ceremony and rituals associated with Simone Leigh’s biography as a conceptual point of departure. This work will include hand-made ceramic, wood and glass-beaded works, informed by Leigh’s ongoing visual research on contemporary craft practices in the Global South, as well as found objects repurposed for display. You Have Fallen From Grace builds upon the lexicon of objects developed in previous site-specific installations.
Simone Leigh creates ceramic works, videos and installations informed by her interest in African art, ethnographic research, feminism and performance…
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