Lorna Simpson talks to Frieze about her life and work in her Brooklyn studio. Simpson came to prominence in the 1980s through her pioneering approach to conceptual photography, which featured striking juxtapositions of text and staged images and raised questions about the nature of representation, identity, gender, race and history. These concerns are reflected in the artist’s expanding and increasingly multi-disciplinary practice today.
Unanswerable, Lorna Simpson’s inaugural exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London, featuring new paintings, photographic collage and sculpture, is on view 1 March–28 April 2018. Opening Wednesday 28 February 2018.
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