CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/19/2024

Of bodies and knowing, in 'Christina Quarles: Collapsed Time'

“We know ourselves as this fragmented jumble of limbs and this kind of code switching that happens throughout our lives and throughout our days,” Christina Quarles is quoted in the new monograph, Collapsed Time. “A lot of the work is trying to tap into that experience of the self, and then, for me, it’s about overlapping that with what it is to be in a racialized body as somebody who’s multiracial and who is half Black but is also half white and is legibly seen as white by white people… The basis of the work is trying to get at what it is to be in a racialized body, to be in a gendered body, to be in a queer body, really to be in any body and the confusing place that that actually is with knowing yourself.” Featured image is Always (Get Me Down) (2021).