To celebrate the exhibition Projects: Ming Smith, Erica N. Cardwell moderates a panel of Gabrielle Civil, Kenturah Davis, and Shala Miller. These interdisciplinary artists will discuss Smith’s work in relation to optics/opticality, the blur, light and shadow, and (in)visibility. Each artist will select a photograph from the exhibition as an entry point for exploration of their own practice, activating and responding to the photograph with their own visual, sonic, or poetic offering. The panelists highlight the hybridity of Smith’s practice, which often explores the role of music, dance, and writing.

This program is one in a series in support of Projects: Ming Smith that seek to expand the discourse on Smith’s practice beyond existing art-historical, curatorial, and cultural-theory frameworks. In focusing on the blur, that which is just beyond the grasp of our touch and eyes, that opacity, privacy, and fugitivity characteristic of Blackness, we hope to reframe how we sense and perceive image and movement as captured through Smith’s photographic lens.

This event is a collaboration between the Studio Museum in Harlem and MoMA.

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