“...I’m less interested in what it is to look at another person and I’m more interested in painting what it is to be in your own body and experiencing the world and yourself through this outward looking that happens.” — Christina Quarles to @artnews It’s been almost five years since “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon" opened at the New Museum! The exhibition brought together artists who explored gender beyond the binary. Quarles, whose work is pictured here, uses a unique composition of figures to highlight the sort of “fragmentation” that occurs when we contradict the identities we are assigned. This resonates most for Quarles as it pertains to her experience as a multiracial woman, and how confusing it can be to truly know oneself while living in a racialized body. See Christina Quarles’s work on display in “In 24 Days tha Sun'll Set at 7pm” opening September 8 at Hauser & Wirth. You can also see her work currently on display in the main exhibition “The Milk of Dreams” at the Venice Biennale through November 27. Check out the link in bio to learn more about “Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon” at the New Museum! @cequarles @hauserwirth @labiennale #ChristinaQuarles Image: Christina Quarles, We Gunna Live With Water Fer Tha Resta Our Lives, 2017. Acrylic on canvas. 50 x 40 in (127 x 101.6 cm). Courtesy the artist and David Castillo Gallery. Collection Jerry Herskowitz, New York