Sunday January 10 is your last chance to experience “Are You Reading Closely?” a new work by Kameela

Sunday January 10 is your last chance to experience “Are You Reading Closely?” a new work by Kameelah Janan Rasheed and the first artwork to grace the Brooklyn Museum’s historic columned facade. Whether viewed at street level, or from atop the pavilion bridge, or in high-res images available on our website, this four-part artwork encourages close looking and reading in its conjunctions and kinships of words, phrases, and images, connected at times through schematic lines. Thwarting the typically clear-cut, promotional context of the space, which usually houses banners promoting exhibitions, Rasheed’s Xerox-based work vibrates with snippets of found text accumulating into poetry, glimpses of images from the artist’s collection of vernacular photographs of Black life, and a sense of unfinished, in-process thinking and making. In one detail, a Black woman elder shakes a Polaroid photograph, the image capturing her younger companion’s excitement, as well as the fugitive yet emergent moment in the picture-making process. In a time when hypervisibility and hyperproductivity create exhausting patterns of thought and action, Rasheed presents an unfinished yet intentional path forward for an internal process of reading with care: “reading, remembering, research, resistance, returning.”Posted by Carmen HermoInstallation view, Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Are We Reading Closely? Brooklyn Museum, November 11, 2020–January 10, 2021. (Photo: Jonathan Dorado) -- source link

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