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Loophole of Retreat

Loophole of Retreat

Leigh, Simone
Bumbray, Rashida

Paperback

Art Criticism & TheoryAmerican Art - African American & Black

Publisher Price: $50.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 8, 2026

ISBN13: 9798991474634
Publisher: Pacific
Published: Dec 8 2026
Pages: 286
Language: English

The collected contributions from Simone Leigh's 2022 Venice Biennale symposium on Black women's intellectual and creative labor

As a part of the United States Pavilion for the 2022 Venice Biennale (for which she won the Gold Lion), Simone Leigh (born 1967) organized a three-day symposium, Loophole of Retreat, to take place during the exhibition. The title is drawn from a passage in the 1861 autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, who, for seven years after escaping enslavement, lived in a crawlspace she dubbed the loophole of retreat. This publication brings together the collected contributions from Leigh's symposium by more than 60 international theorists, activists, historians, artists and writers. Structured around guiding themes--Maroonage, Manual, Magical Realism, Medicine and Sovereignty--each essay, dialogue, performance and artwork tells a story about Black women's intellectual and creative labor throughout history.

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