'Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room,” at the metmuseum considers what Seneca Village might have been.
, the museum’s director, “was really interested in thinking of what a modern or even futuristic period room would be,” Lawrence explains. So she and Ian Alteveer, the Aaron I. Fleischman Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, met to brainstorm. “We spoke about what would happen if wewith the fiction instead of concealing it, and we used that fiction as an opportunity to bring new narratives into the museum,” she says.
, the room’s mission nicely dovetailed with some of her own research. “What I took from our conversations early on was that it was my definition of speculation and speculative thought and the ways that Black people have been able to take control of their bodies and their futures—that really spoke to the kind of project that they wanted to create at the Met,” she says.
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