Sonia Boyce on Lygia Clark with Mark Hudson
The Brooklyn Rail
November 2024
Sonia Boyce presented Feeling Her Way for the British Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, for which she was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Boyce came to prominence in the early eighties as a key figure in the burgeoning British Black Arts Movement with figurative pastel drawings and photo collages that addressed issues of race and gender in Britain. Since the nineties Boyce has shifted significantly to embrace a social practice that invites improvisation, collaboration, movement and sound.
On the occasion of an interconnected pair of exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery—one for which Boyce co-curated the work of Lygia Clark, and the other of which presents Boyce’s work—the artist joined Mark Hudson on the Rail’s New Social Environment (Episode #1023) to discuss her deep appreciation for Lygia Clark, the role of performance in her own work, and the importance of engaging with one’s audience. […]