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Exhibition catalog for "Clarissa Sligh: Witnessing Through Artist’s Books"
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AAR.EC.0241.1
2019
Catalog for "Clarissa Sligh: Witnessing Through Artist’s Books," an exhibition on view at the Center for Book Arts October 3-December 14, 2019.
The Center for Book arts is pleased to present the solo project Witnessing Through Artist’s Books by Clarissa Sligh. Clarissa Sligh engages with the book format to document, deconstruct and redress the structural oppression witnessed throughout her lifetime. Sourcing from U.S. history and her lived experiences growing up in the Jim Crow South, Sligh’s artist’s books utilize text and photography to explore and interrogate the human condition under our normative societal roles and structures. She collages poetry and prose, photographs and drawings, journal excerpts and visual textures to evoke simultaneous intimacy as both spectator and spectacle.