Rhea Dillon: An Alterable Terrain - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184976882X ISBN 13: 9781849768825

Publisher: Tate Publishing, 2023

Synopsis

A signed special edition of Rhea Dillon’s An Alterable Terrain , designed, produced and hand-finished by the artist, OK-RM and Book Works, 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. An Alterable Terrain, the solo exhibition by Rhea Dillon at Tate Britain from May 2023 until January 2024, brought 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.

About this title

About the Authors

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).

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).

From the Back Cover

Probing material histories and Black feminist epistemologies, Rhea 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.

Opening at Tate Britain from May 2023, Rhea Dillon’s solo Art Now exhibition, An Alterable Terrain, brings together her new and existing sculptures as a conceptual fragmentation of a Black woman’s body. It examines material histories, theories of minimalism and abstraction, and Black feminist epistemologies to evoke elements of an amorphous body, including the eyes, mouth, soul and hands. 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 book showcases Dillon’s poetically insightful work. It features Dillon’s poetry, alongside new writings and reprinted extracts by her and other contributors, and illustrations of the exhibition and individual works. This powerful new 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tate Publishing
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184976882X
• ISBN 13: 9781849768825
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Dillon Rhea