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Rhea Dillon

An Alterable Terrain
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The Tate Britain Art Now exhibition is running from 23 May 2023 to 1 January 2024. An Alterable Terrain, the solo exhibition by Rhea Dillon at Tate Britain from May 2023 until January 2024, brings together new and existing sculptures as a conceptual fragmentation of a Black woman's body. Probing material histories and Black feminist epistemologies, Dillon evokes the fragments of a conceptual body—eyes, hands, feet, mouth, soul, reproductive organs, and lungs—in this poetic assemblage of responses to colonialism, patriarchy, and Black female labour.

Viewed together, these disparate elements underline the foundational role Black women's physical, reproductive, and intellectual labour has played in the history of the British Empire.

Accompanying this major exhibition, this publication showcases Dillon's poetically insightful work. Edited by Dillon, it features her poetry, alongside newly commissioned texts, posthumously published poems from the poetry archives in Jamaica, and illustrations of the exhibition and individual works. Published by Tate Publishing, An Alterable Terrain features contributions from Patricia Noxolo, Barbara Ferland, Zoé Samudzi, Vanessa Onwuemezi, Françoise Vergès, Katherine McKittrick, and Martine Syms.

This powerful volume illuminates the links between historical sites of dispossession and contemporaneous sites of exploitation and overwork, and underlines how structures of power—including colonialism, racial capitalism, and patriarchy—have an enduring presence in the production of Caribbean and British identities.

A signed special edition of Rhea Dillon's An Alterable Terrain, designed, produced, and hand-finished by the artist, OK-RM, and Book Works, is available in a limited edition of 200 copies. Signed and numbered by the artist, it includes several hand-bound publications collected together within a specially produced folder and a limited-edition poster.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781849768825

Publisher: Tate Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 November 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Tate Publishing

Contributors:

  • By Rhea Dillon
  • Introduction by Professor Patricia Noxolo
  • Contributions by Barbara Ferland
  • Contributions by Zoé Samudzi
  • Contributions by Françoise Vergès
  • Contributions by Vanessa Onwuemezi
  • Contributions by Katherine McKittrick
  • Contributions by Martine Syms
  • Epilogue by Daniella Rose King

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 265.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 128

About the Author

Rhea Dillon is an artist, writer and poet based in London. Recent exhibitions include We looked for eyes creased with concern, but saw only veils at Sweetwater, Berlin (2023); The Sombre Majesty (or, on being the pronounced dead) at Soft Opening, London (2022); Real Corporeal at Gladstone Gallery, New York (2022); and Love at Bold Tendencies, London (2022). She was an artist in residence at Triangle-Astérides, Marseille and previously at V.O. Curations, London, which culminated in a solo exhibition, Nonbody Nonthing No Thing and the publishing of poetry chapbook, Donald Dahmer (both 2021). Barbara Ferland is a poet. Born in Spanish Town, Jamaica in 1919, she wrote the music for the first all-Jamaican pantomime, Busha Bluebeard (1949), and was a contributor to the BBC's Caribbean Voices in Jamaica in the 1950s, before settling in Britain in 1960. Katherine McKittrick is Professor of Gender Studies and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. Professor Patricia Noxolo is a geographer whose research brings together the study of international culture and in/security, using postcolonial, discursive and literary approaches to explore the spatialities of a range of Caribbean and British cultural practices. She was awarded the 2021 Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Murchison Award and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer living in London. She is the winner of The White Review Short Story Prize 2019 and her work has appeared in literary and art magazines, including Granta, Frieze and Prototype. Daniella Rose King is a curator and writer. She is Adjunct Curator, Caribbean Diasporic Art, Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, and Associate Lecturer, Curating at Teesside University. Zoé Samudzi is the Charles E. Scheidt Visiting Assistant Professor of Genocide Studies and Genocide Prevention at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University, Massachusetts. She is an associate editor with Parapraxis Magazine, and a writer and a critic. Martine Syms is an artist who has earned wide recognition for a practice combining conceptual grit, humour and social commentary. She has exhibited extensively including solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and Tate Modern. Françoise Vergès is a decolonial feminist theorist, anti-racist and anti-imperial activist, and an independent curator.

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