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Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm

Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection
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Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm is an artist's book by acclaimed London-based designer Grace Wales Bonner, presenting an archive of soulful expression through nearly 80 works from The Museum of Modern Art's collection. It creates rich multisensory links between images, poetry, music, and performance, highlighting modern Black expression with contributions from artists and Black authors spanning a century. Published alongside the exhibition Artist's Choice: Grace Wales Bonner-Spirit Movers, this volume acts as a personal meditation echoing Wales Bonner's vibrant designs.
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Shortlisted for Aperture's 2024 PhotoBook Awards

Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm is an artist's book by Grace Wales Bonner, featuring works in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Grace Wales Bonner: Dream in the Rhythm-Visions of Sound and Spirit in the MoMA Collection is assembled 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 Art's 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 performance documentation by artists like 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 Artist's Choice: Grace Wales Bonner-Spirit Movers, this resplendent publication is a deeply personal meditation on and around modern Black expression that echoes Wales Bonner's own vibrant, virtuosic designs.

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Critics praise the book for its sophisticated and intuitive connections across time and media, with Enuma Okoro highlighting its balance between tradition and freedom, and Inès Cross noting its rich archival imagery. Vince Aletti commends the exhibition and book for bringing fresh perspectives to evocative photographs and their implicit soundtracks, making each piece feel newly significant.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781633451582

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 December 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Museum of Modern Art

Illustration: 72 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Edited by Grace Wales Bonner
  • Afterword by Michelle Kuo

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 305.0mm

Weight: 1160g

Pages: 184

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Grace Wales Bonner (born 1990) is the founder and artistic director of Wales Bonner. While she sees herself primarily as a researcher, her expansive artistic 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 recently launched a four-year project, Between Critique and Hope, at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she is lead researcher. The project attempts to use the poly-rhythmicality of Afro-Atlantic musical and artistic forms as the organizing principle for an alternative archival practice. For her work at Wales Bonner, she has received numerous awards, including the LVMH Young Designer Prize (2016) and the CFDA International Men's Designer of the Year (2021). She has also collaborated with brands including adidas Originals, Anderson & Sheppard, and Dior.
https://walesbonner.net/pages/about

Michelle Kuo is The Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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