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Artist Mónica Alcázar-Duarte shares a list of recommended texts, exploring themes addressed in her current exhibition
Explore issues of indigenous environmentalism, feminism and Spanish colonial history with this reading list compiled by artist Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, to accompany her exhibition Digital Clouds Don't Carry Rain on display at Autograph until 1 June 2024.
➡ Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, México Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilisation, translated by Philip Denis. Published by University of Texas Press, 1997.
➡ Mark V. Campbell, Afrosonic Life, published by Bloomsbury, 2023.
➡ Mark V. Campbell, Black Canadian Thought, published in The CLR James Journal, Vol. 20, 2014.
➡ Inua Ellams, The Actual, published by Penned in the Margins, 2020.
➡ bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions: 1 (Love Song to the Nation, 1), published by William Morrow Paperbacks, 2016.
➡ Ilona Katzew, Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World, published by Yale University Press, 2011.
➡ Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, published by Penguin Books, 2020.
➡ Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, published by Penguin Books, 2021.
➡ Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider, published by Penguin Books, 2019.
➡ Toni Morrison, Beloved, published by Vintage Publishing, 2007.
➡ Lola Olufemi, Experiments in Imagining Otherwise, published by Hajar Press, 2021.
➡ Richard Powers, The Overstory, published by Vintage Publishing, 2019.
➡ Françoise Vergès, A Decolonial Feminism, published by Pluto Press, 2021.
16 Feb – 1 Jun 2024
Free exhibition
Banner image: Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, Ah-Muzen-Cab - Mayan deity of bees [detail], from the series Digital Clouds Don’t Carry Rain, 2021-2023, © and courtesy the artist.
Other image on page: Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, Ixchel - Mayan Moon and Birth deity from the series Digital Clouds Don’t Carry Rain, 2021-2023, © and courtesy the artist.
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