ARTAFRICA‘A Constellation’ poses questions about how artists have addressed race, class and the
body in the mid-to-late twentieth century, and how artists continue to work through these
concerns in the twenty-first century. The United States is in the midst of a particularly
fraught moment in the conversation around these subjects, both in the media and in
private spaces. Some may imagine that many complex, century-old questions have been
resolved since the birth of black nationalism and the civil rights movement – despite the
fact that we have only begun to unpack our collective history here.A CONSTELLATION / AMANDA HUNT 2/6
CURATOR'S INSIGHTCLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Installation view of ‘A Constellation’ at The Studio Museum in Harlem,
November 12, 2015–March 6, 2016. Photograph: Adam Reich; Hugo McCloud, Untitled, safety series
orange, 2014. Aluminum foil, aluminum coating and oil paint on tar paper 226 × 200 cm. Photograph:
Sean Kelly, New York © Hugo McCloud; David Hammons, Too Obvious, 1996. Cowrie shells and
porcelain ceramic 17,8 x 30,5 x 35,6 cm. The Studio Museum in Harlem. Photograph: Marc Bernier.