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Opening Reception: Toisha Tucker: It’s a most peculiar sensation; or that time Virginia Woolf wore Blackface

Sat, Aug 19

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KODA/RU House

KODA presents a solo survey exhibition and three-month residency with New York based interdisciplinary conceptual artist and writer Toisha Tucker. Featuring a Virginia Woolf altar, video, works on paper, sculptures, and an immersive conceptual installation.

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Opening Reception: Toisha Tucker: It’s a most peculiar sensation; or that time Virginia Woolf wore Blackface
Opening Reception: Toisha Tucker: It’s a most peculiar sensation; or that time Virginia Woolf wore Blackface

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Aug 19, 2023, 1:00 PM – Aug 20, 2023, 5:00 PM

KODA/RU House, Governors Island, New York, NY 11231, USA

About the Event

KODA presents a solo survey exhibition and three-month residency with New York based interdisciplinary conceptual artist and writer Toisha Tucker. The exhibition entitled It’s a most peculiar sensation; or that time Virginia Woolf wore Blackface features a Virginia Woolf altar, video, works on paper, sculptures, and an immersive conceptual installation. Tucker’s fascination with Virginia Woolf began at the age of 17, when they first encountered To the Lighthouse. The novel awakened in them a belief in their ability to become a writer. They felt safe and seen. For years to come, they let their identity form and evolve alongside Virgina Woolf’s words and imagination. Orlando, 2015, is a photograph exploring the perception of gender identity. Using the binary constructs of gender, Orlandomerges the profiles of two female gendered persons, both Virginia Woolf and Tucker, into a third masculine appearing male gendered identity that manifests between their merged images. Having later…

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