{"product_id":"ier-020-in-dialogue-with-grace-jones","title":"IER-020 in dialogue with | Grace Jones | Lorna Simpson","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"relative basis-auto flex-col -mb-(--composer-overlap-px) [--composer-overlap-px:28px] grow flex\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex flex-col text-sm pb-25\"\u003e\n\u003carticle dir=\"auto\" class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [\u0026amp;:has([data-writing-block])\u0026gt;*]:pointer-events-auto scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+\u0026amp;]:mt-1\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word light markdown-new-styling\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"relative basis-auto flex-col -mb-(--composer-overlap-px) [--composer-overlap-px:28px] grow flex\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex flex-col text-sm pb-25\"\u003e\n\u003carticle class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [\u0026amp;:has([data-writing-block])\u0026gt;*]:pointer-events-auto scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+\u0026amp;]:mt-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full wrap-break-word light markdown-new-styling\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConversation Piece \/ Post-Colonial Gold\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn dialogue with Lorna Simpson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIconic resonance: Grace Jones\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eValue: Visibility Without Surrender\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis conversation piece stands in dialogue with Lorna Simpson. Not by literally quoting her work, but by translating a central attitude in her practice: the refusal of the Black female image to become fully available, easily consumed or comfortably explained.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe object consists of a rough circular form suspended from a smaller upper element by a dark vertical connector. It carries the scale of an earring, but the presence of a small monument. The surface is uneven, pale and materially insistent. It does not seek polish or decorative smoothness. It appears closer to skin, stone, sediment, scar tissue or archive than to conventional jewellery.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe open circle is essential. It creates visibility, but also withholding. It frames space without filling it. It draws attention to the body, the jawline, the neck and the profile, while refusing to become merely ornamental.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is where meaning begins.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLorna Simpson’s work has long examined the conditions under which Black women are seen, read, represented and misread. Through photography, text, collage, film and painting, she questions the supposed neutrality of the image. Her figures are often fragmented, turned away, cropped, repeated or partially withheld. Hair, skin, silhouette and language become charged sites of projection, history and control.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn Simpson’s work, visibility is never simple. To be visible can mean to be recognised, but it can also mean to be fixed, consumed, classified or possessed by the gaze. Her power lies in keeping the image open, complex and resistant. She gives presence without surrendering meaning.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis object translates that value into a wearable sculpture: Visibility Without Surrender. The large circular form is strongly present, yet incomplete at its centre. The rough surface refuses the seduction of finish. The object asks to be seen, but not mastered. It holds the tension between display and protection, exposure and refusal, image and interiority.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGrace Jones becomes a powerful iconic carrier of this value. Her public image is one of the most forceful examples of self-authored visibility in contemporary visual culture. Through body, voice, fashion, pose and performance, Jones transformed herself into an architectural presence: androgynous, sculptural, commanding and impossible to reduce to conventional glamour.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLike Simpson, Jones understands that the Black female image is never neutral territory. But where Simpson often fragments and withholds, Jones amplifies and controls. She turns the body into an icon, a mask, a weapon and a monument. Her visibility is not an invitation to consume her, but a system of power she directs herself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSimpson and Jones do not meet through style, but through force. One makes the image into a question; the other makes the body into an icon. Both refuse the easy consumption of Black female presence. Both insist on complexity, control and distance. Both show that visibility only becomes valuable when it does not collapse into availability.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWithin Post-Colonial Gold, gold is not used as a sign of luxury, but as the marker of a new value system. Value does not arise here from status, possession, fame or smooth beauty, but from the ability to remain present without being possessed. This object carries that value as a sculptural signal on the body.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs a wearable object, it takes art out of the closed space of the museum and places it into movement: on the body, in public, in conversation. It becomes not an accessory, but a portable archive of value. It resists the idea that art should remain locked inside institutions, hidden in storage, absorbed by private collections or immobilised in freeports. Instead, the work enters public life through the body, the street, the fashion image and the everyday encounter.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThrough a unique ID and QR code, the piece extends beyond its physical form into a digital layer. The work can also be viewed in an immersive environment, where the wider context remains accessible beyond the limits of place, ownership or opening hours. Dedicated blogs on the website unfold the artist in dialogue, the iconic resonance, the value, the material reference and the thinking behind the work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe iconic resonance is not used as celebrity endorsement, but as cultural access. It brings the object into a broader visual field and allows a larger audience to approach the work through an image they may already recognise. From there, the piece leads back to the artist, the value and the questions the work activates.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConversation Pieces \/ Post-Colonial Gold makes value visible by moving art out of the museum, the depot and the closed circuit of ownership. The object is not only worn; it carries access. It becomes a physical and digital entry point to art, thought and self-knowledge: wearable, shareable, digitally available and open beyond the boundaries of the institution.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor our time, this value feels urgent. We live in a culture that demands constant visibility, self-explanation and recognisable identity. Visibility Without Surrender offers another position. It reminds us that being seen does not have to mean being simplified. Presence does not require permission. The image does not owe the viewer full access.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNo decoration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA visible form that refuses to be consumed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach piece is handmade and unique. Through its unique ID and QR code, the object connects to a digital layer: the immersive presentation, the artist in dialogue, the iconic resonance, the value, the material reference and the context behind the work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eType: wearable sculpture \/ statement earring\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMaterial: rough pale sculptural forms, dark connector element\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFinish: handmade; each piece is unique\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCollection: Conversation Pieces \/ Post-Colonial Gold\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eArtist in dialogue: Lorna Simpson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIconic resonance: Grace Jones\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eValue: Visibility Without Surrender\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDigital layer: unique ID + QR code\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUse: sculptural wearable object, handle with care\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrice: €550\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShipping Info\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShips from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach piece is carefully packed and shipped with tracking.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs every object is handmade and unique, small variations in finish, form and material are part of the work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMeta Description\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHandmade wearable sculpture earring by Annelies Nuy, part of Conversation Pieces \/ Post-Colonial Gold, in dialogue with Lorna Simpson. 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