Rhea Dillon works in sculpture, painting, performance, and poetry, using wide-ranging materials to articulate an aesthetic of diasporic Blackness grounded in nonbeing. Her charged exhibitions and writing use poetics, abstraction, and everyday objects to produce distinctive arrangements of sense and affect.
For this project at Kevin Space, a strain of Dillon’s research coalesces into an architectural intervention. She proposes a poethical construction of Black feminist interiority, utilizing Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the “fold,” to generate an original reading. The baroque materialism of Leibniz’s pleats and manifolds are reduced to a single “Black fold” by Dillon, as a site for imagining interiority and selfhood outside the framework and logic of Western man. She writes, “In the act of folding I am able to reencounter myself from a refracted angle. A new feeling made from the past, present and future.” The “Black Fold” is an essay that takes the form of an exhibition.
at Kevin Space, Vienna
until January 13, 2024