Solange's masterful 2016 album, A Seat At The Table, is a work of art in and of itself, and the track "Cranes In The Sky" earned the singer the GRAMMY for Best R&B Performance at the 59th GRAMMY Awards. But now the album has its own visual art installation as well.
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In conjunction with the Tate Modern museum in London and artist Carlota Guerrero, Solange has curated a "digital interactive dossier" of visual artifacts from A Seat At The Table called Seventy States. The exhibit is on display from Aug. 25 through Oct. 22 in the Tanks Foyer at the Tate and online as part of the larger installation, Soul Of A Nation: Art In The Age Of Black Power.
Solange's Seventy States includes unreleased performance pieces, footage from "Cranes In The Sky" and "Don't Touch My Hair" co- directed by Alan Ferguson, the original piece "We Sleep In Our Clothes," and poetry she wrote. Each piece, like her album, explores black womanhood, identity and how Solange uses art in all its forms as a means of healing.
"During the creation of A Seat At The Table and my deeper exploration into my own identity, I experienced many different states of being and mind throughout my journey," writes Solange. "The state I so greatly wanted to experience, but that never arrived was optimism. I couldn't answer my own question, if I had a responsibility as an artist to also express optimism in the midst of working through so much of my own healing. I decided to do this through a visual language."
