DETAILS, FICTION AND ORGAN PLAYER

By turns evoking the spectral scene of Heinrich von Kleist’s marionette theatre and confronting what Tavia Nyong’o refers to as the “failed humor” of your ceramic figurine’s “racist kitsch,” Organ Player aestheticizes the intertwined marriage in between race, subjectivity, and grace. As the doll’s physique composes by itself, at wha