PACKER, Jennifer
Jennifer Packer: The Eye Is Not Satisfied with Seeing

On the occasion of Jennifer Packer’s exhibition The Eye Is Not Satisfied With Seeing, Serpentine is co-publishing a catalogue with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König. Richly illustrated and designed by Roland Brauchli, it includes contributions by a number of artists and art historians including Rizvana Bradley, bell hooks, Dona Nelson, Christina Sharpe , Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and an interview between Jennifer Packer and Serpentine Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Christina Sharpe’s insightful new text Abundant With Light focuses on both the political and emotional resonance of Packer’s practice. Artist and writer Lynette Yiadom-Boakye has written short texts and a poem that can be read with Packer’s paintings in mind. An extended interview between the artist and Hans Ulrich Obrist delves deeply into her practice and her artistic influences from Carravagio to Fantin Latour to Kehinde Wiley. Art Historian Rizvana Bradley’s scholarly essay The Weathering of Form: Jennifer Packer’s Abstract Figures centers on works in the exhibition and positions Packer within discourses of Black art theory. Artist Dona Nelson, Packer’s former painting tutor, recounts a studio visit with the artist in early March 2020, prior to the global lockdown. Nelson’s intimate perceptions of new paintings are inextricably connected to that specific time and place. The catalogue also includes bell hooks’ seminal 1992 essay Representing Whiteness in the Black Imagination, which remains an important influence on Packer’s practice. [publisher's note]

Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2021
Monographs / Exhibition Catalogues