Dionne Lee: Currents

Dionne Lee (born in New York, 1988) works across photography, video, and collage to examine histories of land, power, survival, and Black identity in the American landscape.

Lees formal interventions and innovative darkroom techniquesincluding rephotographing found imagery from wilderness survival manuals and using graphite pencils to create inscriptions on her photographs of the landscapeaddress themes of dispossession, loss, and resilience.Dionne Lee: Currents, the artists first monograph, brings together key works from over a decade of Lees career alongside essays by award-winning poet Camille T. Dungy and curator Eric Booker, as well as a conversation between Lee and the artist Gabrielle LHirondelle Hill, offering a deeper look at a visionary artist reshaping how we seeand choose to imaginethe great outdoors.