Rashid Johnson, Black and Blue, 2021 Filmstill © Rashid Johnson
Conversations
Thinking-in-action
In “Thinking-in-action: A Conversation between Rashid Johnson and Kevin Quashie”, artist Rashid Johnson’s short film “Black and Blue” (2021) is a point of departure to discuss the home as a space of creativity and intimacy.
Central in the conversation is the notion of “quiet,” which writer Kevin Quashie theorized in his book “The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture” (2012) as “a different kind of expressiveness, one which characterizes a person’s desires, ambitions, hungers, vulnerabilities, and fears.”
“Thinking-in-action” connects Johnson’s film as well as the exhibition Seven Rooms and a Garden as a whole to these new possibilities of resistance, based on interiority and quietude.
Thinking-in-action: A Conversation between Rashid Johnson and Kevin Quashie (pdf)
How do I understand the inherited condition? How do I find space to use my own language?
Artist talk
Listen to Rashid Johnson and curator Hendrik Folkerts in the artist talk, held during the opening day of the exhibition “Seven Rooms and a Garden”.
Discover more about Rashid Johnson in the Exhibition Guide.
Seven Rooms and a Garden
In “Seven Rooms and a Garden: Rashid Johnson and The Moderna Museet Collection”, the work of American artist and filmmaker Rashid Johnson …
Rashid Johnson and The Moderna Museet Collection
Exhibition Guide
In the Moderna Museet exhibition guide, you will find audio guides, texts and other material aimed at making the visit to the museum more accessible. …
Your guide to the museum
