Lorna Simpson
Maybe as an individual one should be afforded the space to create an expansive fiction.
Lorna Simpson via Interview Magazine, 2016
Born in Brooklyn, Lorna Simpson (1960, United States) came to prominence in the 1980s with her pioneering approach to conceptual photography. Simpson’s early work—particularly her striking juxtapositions of text and staged images—raised questions about the nature of representation, identity, gender, race and history that continue to drive the artist’s expanding and multi-disciplinary practice today. She deftly explores the medium’s umbilical relation to memory and history, both central themes within her work.
