"Born in the late 1800s to a Welsh father and third-generation Creole mother in Dominica, Rhys was a white child in a primarily Black society. While she came to Europe in her teens, variously moving between France, the UK and the Netherlands, her writing retained a rich understanding of the place and culture of her birth. Her stories are full of complicated women, exploring the experience of exile and the power dynamics of sex and love through her lived understanding of racial and class complexities."
"Her evocative prose is the starting point for Hilton Als' new show at Michael Werner in London, which takes an experimental curatorial approach, drawing on artists past and present to evoke her world without neatly defining it. Als, an American writer with over 30 years' experience at The New Yorker and a Pulitzer Prize for theatre criticism, often centres his curation around larger-than-life literary figures."
Jean Rhys was born in the late 1800s to a Welsh father and a third-generation Creole mother in Dominica and grew up as a white child within a primarily Black society. She moved to Europe in her teens and lived in France, the UK and the Netherlands while maintaining a deep understanding of her birthplace's culture. Her stories feature complicated women and examine exile, and the power dynamics of sex, love, race, and class. Hilton Als curated Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World at Michael Werner in London, using evocative prose as a touchstone for an experimental, multi-artist exhibition. The show pairs historical works by Kara Walker, Leon Kossoff and Celia Paul with new commissions by Somaya Critchlow and Reggie Burrows Hodges.
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