A deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression, curated by the acclaimed London-based designer

This volume, Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the RhythmVisions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection, is an artists book created by the acclaimed London-based designer Grace Wales Bonner as an archive of soulful expression. Through an extraordinary selection of nearly 80 works from The Museum of Modern Arts collection and archives, this unique volume draws multisensory connections between pictures and poems, music and performance, hearing and touch, gestures and vibrations, and bodies in motion. Photographs, scores and films by artists such as Dawoud Bey, Mark Bradford, Roy DeCarava, Lee Friedlander, David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, Lorna Simpson and Ming Smith, among others, are juxtaposed with signal texts by Black authors spanning the past century, including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Langston Hughes, June Jordan, Robin Coste Lewis, Ishmael Reed, Greg Tate, Jean Toomer, Quincy Troupe and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Artists Choice: Grace Wales BonnerSpirit Movers, this resplendent publication is a deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression that echoes Wales Bonners own vibrant, virtuosic designs.
Grace Wales Bonner (born 1990) is the founder and artistic director of Wales Bonner. While she sees herself primarily as a researcher, her practice extends to curation, filmmaking and publishing. In 2019 she curated her first institutional exhibition, A Time for New Dreams, at the Serpentine Gallery, London. She has received numerous awards, including the LVMH Young Designer Prize (2016) and the CFDA International Mens Designer of the Year (2021). She has also collaborated with brands including Adidas and Dior.

Hardcover | 184 pages | 9.25″ x 12.15″