At Bard College, the 'Black Melancholia' exhibition expands and complicates the notion of melancholy in Western art history and cultures.
a show that subverts traditional depictions of melancholy in the art historical canon by gathering poignant depictions of longing and despair by 28 emerging and established Black artists, including Roy DeCarava, Ja’Tovia Gary, Tyler Mitchell, Walter Price, and Lorna Simpson.Photo: Olympia Shannon/Courtesy of CCS Bard
As one moves from the first gallery—where paintings backed by gauzy white fabric show Black faces and bodies curled in sorrow—and into the next, where contemporary artists like Price and Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle lean hard into scale and color, “Black Melancholia” tells a story of the Black past, present, and future.
“There were several entryways into ‘Black Melancholia’—it didn’t come easy to me,” says curator Nana Adusei-Poku, dressed in the same shade of royal blue found throughout the space. “The first was an exhibition that I visited in Berlin in 2006 where the whole show was centered around Albrecht Dürer’s piecefrom 1514, which is a masterpiece. It’s one of the first pieces in art history that was described as a psychological portrait.
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