A Rhythm Black & Sweet

Opening: Saturday, 7 September, 5 – 8pm

Zander Galerie Paris is delighted to present, for the first time in France, the work of Trinidadian-American artist Allana Clarke, whose multidisciplinary studio practice is rooted in current issues of representation, gender and discrimination. Born in 1987, Clarke fluidly uses the practice of photography, sculpture, video and performance to denounce preconceived ideas about skin color and the constraining nature of the body’s meaning, with the aim of creating non-totalizing multidisciplinary structures of identification. She does not hesitate to introduce socio-political texts linked to art history into her cross-disciplinary practice. Clarke defines her practice as follows: “I need to feel alive again, I need to move into the future, into a future where black bodies can be articulated in a way they’ve never been articulated before. My practice is the process of this evolution”. The artists entire practice rests on a mechanism for isolating and examining the hierarchical systems dictating experiences in the world. Curiosity, attention to the other and the notion of freedom permeate all her spectacular creations. Allana Clarke’s work has been screened, performed, and exhibited at, among other places, Gagosian, New York, the New School’s Glass Box Theater, New York City, Frac des Pays de la Loire in Nantes, France and Zander Galerie, Cologne. In June 2024 her first major solo exhibition Tender was opened at The North Carolina Museum of Art (SECCA).