Lorna Simpson

"Since 1985 Lorna Simpson has produced a large body of photographs that operate at the intersection of feminist and African-American oppositional strategies to disclose, critique, and resist dominant representations of gender and race constructed by those who have historically assumed the position of primary spectator. Both assaults on the center identified as their target the multiple processes of objectification through which particular genres of representation come to dominate the public and private consciousness and exert social control."

For the Sake of the Viewer
Beryl J. Wright and Saidiya V. Hartman
(p.11)