Lorna Simpson's work is conceptually multifarious. She has addressed such issues as gender, identity, memory, longing and race in her large scale photographs. She also incorporates the use of multi-media into many of her works, using text and sound as integral parts of a much larger form of expression. Okwui Enwezor writes this about Simpson's work in an essay accompanying a recent exhibition catalogue:
"Language is employed like a lever to pry open the lid of the unconscious...The text panels confront the viewer with a fundamental contradiction between the sense of vision and voice as separate forms of knowing."
Corridor (Phone)
Image © Lorna Simpson
