The Black Fold
Kunstverein Kevin Space, Vienna, 2023
Kevin Space is pleased to present a new project by Rhea Dillon organized by the Center for Experimental Lectures.
For this project a strain of Dillon’s research coalesces into an architectural intervention. She proposes a poethical construction of Black feminist interiority, utilizing Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the “fold,” to generate an original reading. The baroque materialism of Leibniz’s pleats and manifolds are reduced to a single Black fold by Dillon, as a site for imagining interiority and selfhood outside the framework and logic of Western man. She writes, “In the act of folding I am able to reencounter myself from a refracted angle. A new feeling made from the past, present and future.” The Black Fold is an essay that takes the form of an exhibition.
The Center for Experimental Lectures is an artist project based in New York that engages with the public lecture as form. Initiated by Gordon Hall in 2011, and co-organized with Zoey Lubitz since 2016, the Center for Experimental Lectures has commissioned 48 new lectures at venues including Recess, MoMA PS1, The Shandaken Project at Storm King, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Artists Space, the Rhode Island School of Design and RISD Museum, Kunsthaus Glarus, and at the Whitney Museum of American Art presenting Seminars with Artists in conjunction with the 2014 Whitney Biennial. An archive of past commissions, including video and written transcripts, can be found online on their website.
‘The Black Fold’, 2023
Suspended wood floor and paint
Dimensions variable
Suspended wood floor and paint
Dimensions variable
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The Black Fold, 2023
Printed text on folder A3 paper
Printed text on folder A3 paper
‘The Black Fold’ (detail), 2023
Photography: Maximilian Anelli-Monti