Steffani Jemison

Greene Naftali is pleased to present Steffani Jemison’s second exhibition with the gallery. Bodies in motion form the propulsive core of Jemison’s practice, which she describes as a melding of kinetic and literary disciplines into works of “density and unbearable lightness.” Bound draws on motifs of the limitless sky and the broader impulse to take to the air, extending her interest in legacies of dispersal and fugitivity in Black cultural traditions. Jemison’s work across media has long been concerned with the weight of both physical and social forces, but here defying the gravitational pull is consonant with surrendering to it, envisioning new possibilities for liberation in both suspension and descent.