Diana Nawi – författare

The catalog accompanying the must-see triennial exhibition based in New Orleans—opening in October 2021—that art-world insiders consider an essential platform to see the pressing art of our moment. Prospect New Orleans is a citywide contemporary art triennial that was conceived in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Emphasizing collaborative partnerships and site-specificity, Prospect presents artwork by local, national, and international artists in both traditional and highly unexpected environments. In the 2021 iteration of this major exhibition, artistic directors Naima J. Keith and Diana Nawi bring together 51 artists to engage New Orleans as context as they reconsider the concept of history, both global and local. Through many artistic strategies, architectural interventions, and public activations, the exhibition explores current social and political conditions that ask for a reconsideration of the past.  The accompanying catalog—a rich collection of contributions from curators, poets, artists, and cultural critics—considers several key themes that animate the ambitious artist projects: history and haunting; landscape and the natural world; performance, ritual, and the public sphere; and intimacy, life, and death. The remarkable group of voices contributing to the catalogue includes: Essayists: Jeffery U. Darensbourg, Amber Rose Johnson and Meg Onli, Naima J. Keith, Thomas J. Lax, Diana Nawi, Kristina Kay Robinson. Photo Essayist: L. Kasimu Harris. Poet: Robin Coste Lewis. Contributors: Carlos Agredano, Taylor Renee Aldridge, Jordan Amirkhani, Bryan Barcena, Andrew Blackley, Jessica Bell Brown, Olivia Butera, Taylor Bythewood-Porter, Grace Deveney, Faye Gleisser, Ann Hackett, Essence Harden, Ryan Inouye, Andy Johnson, Bana Kattan, Dana Kopel, Simone Krug, Christy LeMaster, Nancy Lim, Lucia Olubunmi Momoh, fari nzinga, Ade J. Omotosho, Georgie Payne, Jared Quinton, Jared C. B. Richardson, Nicole Smythe-Johnson, Charlie Tatum, Susan Thompson, Emily Wilkerson, Allison Young

The sixth iteration of the Los Angeles biennial, highlighting themes of the vernacular, the urban, the performative and the collectivePublished with Hammer Museum.Taking its cues from the ethos of the city and situating art as an expanded field of culture that is entangled with the everyday, community networks, queer affect and indigenous and diasporic histories, Made in L.A. 2023 proposes a network of artistic affinities through intergenerational constellations. These artists suggest art can be an act of preservation and memorialization as well as a space for playfulness, satire and sheer wildness.Artists include: Marcel Alcalá, Michael Alvarez, AMBOS, Jackie Amézquita, Teresa Baker, Luis Bermudez, Sula Bermúdez-Silverman, Jibz Cameron, Melissa Cody, Emmanuel Louisnord Desir, Victor Estrada, Nancy Evans, Jessie Homer French, Pippa Garner, Ishi Glinsky, Vincent Enrique Hernandez, Dan Herschlein, Akinsanya Kambon, Kyle Kilty, Young Joon Kwak, Kang Seung Lee, Tidawhitney Lek, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Maria Maea, Erica Mahinay, Mas Exitos, Dominique Moody, Paige Jiyoung Moon, Esteban Ramón Pérez, Page Person, Roksana Pirouzmand, Ryan Preciado, Devin Reynolds, Miller Robinson, Guadalupe Rosales, Christopher Suarez, Joey Terrill, Chiffon Thomas, Teresa Tolliver.

A deep dive into the life and practice of the conceptual artist creating work that is "always encyclopedic, engrossing, disconcerting and engaging" —the GuardianPublished with Los Angeles County Museum of Art.Lushly packaged in burgundy leatherette with foil stamping and a ribbon marker, The Day Tomorrow Began unites new and old works by the Bahamanian conceptual artist Tavares Strachan (born 1979), whose practice spans sculpture, painting, text, music and performance in order to probe the intersections of art, science and politics. The book features images from exhibitions in which the artist has transformed gallery rooms into immersive multisensory environments—such as a field of rice grass populated with ceramic figures—alongside reproductions of new monumental sculptures. Interviews with figures from Strachan's life—including his mother, Ella Strachan, and his friend Christina "Muffin" Fernander—illuminate his background and bring to life key themes in his work, particularly the absences enshrined in mainstream historical narratives.