Artist Howardena Pindell discusses the research and personal memories behind her new film “Rope/Fire/Water,” which explores the history of lynching and state-sanctioned violence in the United States. In Pindell’s exhibition at The Shed, the film—an unrealized project since the 1970s that The Shed commissioned—is accompanied by thematic paintings that also convey information about the history of imperialism and racial violence, alongside abstract canvases that give artist and viewer a chance to process this fraught subject matter.
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For her solo exhibition at The Shed, Howardena Pindell will present “Rope/Fire/Water,” her first video in 25 years. In this powerful work, Pindell recounts personal anecdotes and anthropological and historical data related to lynchings and racist attacks in the United States. She accompanies this voice-over with archival photos of lynchings and the historic Birmingham, Alabama, Children’s Crusade, a series of nonviolent protests carried out by young people in May 1963.
Over her nearly 60-year career, Pindell has created richly textured abstract paintings while engaging with politics and the social issues of her time. In the exhibition, Pindell will also debut a pair of large-scale paintings related to global atrocities of imperialism and white supremacy, and several abstract paintings that demonstrate a through line in Pindell’s practice: after working on traumatic historical projects, the artist decompresses by creating meticulously produced, large-scale abstract works on unstretched canvas.
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