The artwork features the word "DOCENT" prominently displayed in a minimalist, monochromatic style. The simple composition comprises solid gray letters against a plain white background, emphasizing the typography as the central visual element. The straightforward design and lack of additional details or imagery suggest a focus on the conceptual meaning and symbolic significance of the word "DOCENT," which typically refers to a museum or gallery guide. The overall style and technique evoke a sense of modernist, text-based art that invites the viewer to contemplate the role and importance of the docent in the context of contemporary art and exhibition spaces. ...
Ebun Sodipo makes work for those who will come after: the Black trans people of the future. Her interdisciplinary practice narrates her construction of a Black trans-feminine self after slavery and colonialism. Through processes of fragmentation, collage, and fabulation, she devises softer, other-wise ways of imagining and speaking about the body, desire, archives, and the past. Regularly working within installation and performance, Sodipo collects visual historical fragments and weaves narratives together, part fiction, part record, to craft intricate and intimate stories not commonly found within archives or historical records— unearthing lineages and pathways for Black trans people. Sensitive to spatial relationships and texture, environments rendered by Sodipo bring together photography, collage, sculpture, and material surfaces such as printed PVC or Silver Mylar. The use of these textural components speaks to the blurring or obscuring of Black trans history, whilst Sodipo’s fabrications bring moments of clarity and recognition. Reworking methodologies devised by thinkers such as Saidiya Hartman, Sodipo summons historical figures and visual motifs, creating resonant sites which speak to the past, present and future. ...
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![Prothesis for freedom - Mary Jones’ ‘piece of cow [leather?] pierced and opened like a woman’s womb’](https://res.cloudinary.com/docent-art/image/upload/c_limit,w_3840/f_auto/q_100/v1675680577/production/images/gallery-app/d4972656-4505-4374-b78e-ab1441ddd0e1?_a=BAVAZGBz0)
