Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm: Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection

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An artist's book by Grace Wales Bonner, featuring works in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. On the occasion of the exhibition Artist's Choice: Grace Wales Bonner, MoMA will publish an artist's book titled Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm-Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection, assembled by Wales Bonner as "an archive of soulful expression." Through an extraordinary selection of nearly eighty works from the Museum's collection and archives, this unique volume will draw multisensory connections between pictures and poems, music and performance, hearing and touch, gestures and vibrations and bodies in motion. Photographs, scores, and performance documentation will be juxtaposed with signal texts by Black authors spanning the past century, including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, June Jordan, Robin Coste Lewis, Ishmael Reed, Greg Tate, Jean Toomer, Quincy Troupe, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. The result is a deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression.

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Grace Wales Bonner is an acclaimed designer who has a broad reach across the worlds of art, fashion, and music. She has received numerous awards including Emerging Menswear Designer at the British Fashion Awards (2015), the LVMH Young Designer Prize (2016), Winner of the British Fashion Council/ Vogue Designer Fashion Fund (2019), CFDA International Men's Designer of the Year (2021) and Independent British Brand at the Fashion Awards (2022). In 2019, Grace was invited by Maria Grazia Chiuri to collaborate with Dior to re-interpret the house's New Look silhouette for its Resort 2020 collection. In the same year, she curated an institutional exhibition, A Time for New Dreams, at Serpentine Galleries, London. Grace is Head of the Department of Fashion Design at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Michelle Kuo is The Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.