[Image: Screen split with equal sized photographs of the artists M. Carmen Lane (left) and Sondra Perry (right) with a small red circle logo containing a white A and half-circle in black in the bottom right corner]

The Years They’ve Taken: Systemic Oppression, Black Bodies & the Materiality of Grief

A public dialogue between artists Sondra Perry & M. Carmen Lane.

Presented virtually by ATNSC: Center for Healing & Creative Leadership and EFA Project Space.

M. Carmen Lane and Sondra Perry met after the death of Carmen’s grandmother in 2018. The artists’ interests in race, grief, mourning and the physicality of survival is both a subject and a material in their practice. This conversation is an extension of on going dialogue between the artists after their meeting during Perry’s installation of the work, “A Terrible Thing,” at MOCA Cleveland. Their curiosity in this moment: how to create meaning of this current uprising for racial justice while managing their own grief as it both contracts and expands during a global pandemic. The conversation was moderated by Arthur Russell.

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"The Years They've Taken: Systemic Oppression, Black Bodies and the Materiality of Grief" is a public dialogue between artists M. Carmen Lane and Sondra Perr...