A Southern Magnolia Blooms on June 27

Audio recording by writer, critic and editor Sasha Bonét is specially commissioned to accompany the group exhibition ‘Chopped & Screwed’, curated by Courtney Willis Blair, at White Cube New York. Bonét’s essay provides an intimate meditation on the eponymous music genre, tracing its resonances through moments of sensuous embodiment and personal history. Occasioned by both the works on view and the genre’s use of sound as material, Bonét reflects on the affective force and poetic possibilities of distortion.

Sometimes It Was Beautiful (2018)

Narrated by Sasha Bonét

A film by artist Christian Nyampeta, about a meeting between improbable friends, gathered to watch I fetischmannens spår (In the Footsteps of the Witch Doctor), one of the six films by the Swedish cinematographer Sven Nykvist that he made in or about Congo between 1948 and 1952.

On View inside the Guggenheim Museum Rotunda from April 30–June 21, 2021