Join us for a conversation with Xaviera Simmons, the artist behind our current exhibition Nectar.

Wednesday October 26

18:00–19:30

Konsthall C, Cigarrvägen 16, Hökarängen

Konsthall C's autumn exhibition is called Nectar and is a solo exhibition by the New York-based artist Xaviera Simmons. Come and hear her talk about her practice!

In Xaviera's first exhibition in Sweden, the artist digs deep into the image archive belonging to the 130-year-old newspaper AFRO American. AFRO has been writing about world history from a black perspective since its founding in 1892. The exhibition Nectar consists of photography and video that contextualizes a historical and contemporary engagement with systems, ideas, people, and architecture that undermine American empire-building as a seemingly ever-forward process of expansion. According to the artist, the historical material from the newspaper AFRO offers life-sustaining nuances and glimpses of possible ways forward.

Xaviera Simmons is also interested in how the art industry's forms of constructions of whiteness, labor politics, and institutional failures are both intentional and profound.

Xaviera Simmons’ sweeping practice includes photography, painting, video, sound, sculpture, text and installation. Simmons received her BFA from Bard College (2004) after spending two years on a walking pilgrimage retracing the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade with Buddhist Monks. She completed the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in Studio Art (2005) while simultaneously completing a two-year actor-training conservatory with The Maggie Flanigan Studio, NY.

In collaboration with ABF Stockholm.