Simone Leigh
Small Sentinel (Gold)
Lot closes
June 7, 03:30:00 AM GMT
Estimate
35,000 - 45,000 USD
Current Bid
42,000 USD
8 Bids
Reserve met
Lot Details
Description
Simone Leigh
b. 1967
Small Sentinel (Gold)
Executed in 2022.
Bronze with gold leaf on artist’s base
Edition of 28
21 × 6 × 5 1/2 in. (53.3 × 15.2 × 14 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery
Working in sculpture, video, and installation, Simone Leigh (b. 1967, Chicago, IL; lives in Brooklyn, NY) examines the construction of Black female subjectivity. Her practice considers a range of sources, including ethnography, feminist discourse, folklore, and histories of political resistance, and is rooted in visual traditions from the Caribbean, the American South, and the African diaspora. This work, modeled after Zulu ceremonial spoons, presents a faceless female form that exudes a powerful presence, like a sentinel standing watch. Leigh has had solo exhibitions of her work at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London; Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, among others. In 2022, Leigh represented the United States at the 59th Venice Biennale, where her work was featured in the central exhibition and she received the Golden Lion.