NOW LIVE: Kiyan Williams, #DanielleBrathwaiteShirley, Anaïs Duplan, Nona Faustine, #JonHenry, Nate Lewis, #AzikiweMohammed, and #PublicAssistants in 'Listening for the Unsaid,' an online group exhibition with @davidkordanskygallery Click link in bio to view through November 18, 2020. All proceeds will benefit the featured artists and @TheRacialImaginary. . '#ListeningForTheUnsaid brings together a group of artists, activists, and writers who partake in the impossibility of reconstructing an archive, while trying to archive the impossible. Together, the works comprise a record that disorders, reroutes, and transgresses the protocols of the archive that Saidiya Hartman describes in her essay, 'Venus in Two Acts.' How can we, as Hartman asks, 'revisit the scene of subjection without replicating the grammar of violence?' How do artists adequately render precarious lives—specifically, Black lives—often made 'visible in the moment of their disappearance?' In this time of acute precarity, we felt renewed urgency to gather Black artists, at various stages in their careers, whose work renders the multitude of Black life and engages strategies for imagining counterhistories. If history remains bound to 'dead certainties...produced by terror,' these works gesture toward a mode of archiving that exceeds the limits of record and fact, producing instead a narrative track warped by the 'keens and howls and dirges' of the unsaid.' — TRII . Images (l-r): #KiyanWilliams, 'How Do You Properly Fry an American Flag (Study 2),' 2020, nylon flag flown over the U.S. Capitol Building deep-fried in oil, flour, salt, and paprika on vellum, framed: 16 3/4 x 19 3/4 x 1 1/2 inches; #AnaïsDuplan, 'Ode to the Happy Negro Hugging the Flag in Robert Colescott's 'George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware,' 2017 (STILL), single-channel color video with sound; #NateLewis, 'signaling 45,' 2020, hand-sculpted inkjet print, ink, frottage, and graphite, 30 x 44 x 2 inches; #NonaFaustine, 'Legacy Of Lies, Jefferson Memorial,' 2016, pigment print, 30 x 40 inches, Edition of 5.