Research

  • Black Interior Spatial Thought
  • GRANTEE
    Ladi'Sasha Jones
    GRANT YEAR
    2021

Ladi'Sasha Jones, “Model I of Black Interior Sculptural System,” 2021. Courtesy the artist. Image: Eric Ivan Rivera Martinez

Black Interior Spatial Thought is both a text and sculptural system that proposes a geometric response to ideas of Black interiority. The interior is the inner life and imaginary. It is the space of deep thought, resonance, and affect. This project proposes an architectural method based on Black interior spatial conditions: urban (communal), home (private), and performance (public) spaces. A system that is both a speculative and unfixed typology for everyday Black movement and cultural production.

Ladi'Sasha Jones is a writer and curator based in New York. She has written for Aperture, Avery Review, Arts.Black, Houston Center for Photography, Art X Lagos, Temporary Art Review, The Art Momentum, and Recess among others. Currently, Jones is the artist engagement manager for The Laundromat Project.  She held prior appointments at the Norton Museum of Art, the New Museum’s IdeasCity platform, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She holds a bachelor’s in African American Studies from Temple University and a master’s in arts politics from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.