LOOPHOLE OF RETREAT (PACIFIC) (PB)

As a part of the United States Pavilion for the 2022 Venice Biennale (for which she won the Gold Lion), Simone Leigh (born 1967) organized a three-day symposium, "Loophole of Retreat," to take place during the exhibition. The title is drawn from a passage in the 1861 autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, who, for seven years after escaping enslavement, lived in a crawlspace she dubbed the "loophole of retreat." This publication brings together the collected contributions from Leigh's symposium on Black women's intellectual and creative labor, involving more than 60 international theorists, activists, historians, artists and writers.