For decades, Irish institutions concealed women’s suffering through silence. Now, contemporary artists are confronting these traumatic histories to foster awareness and healing
Chase Quinn is a writer based in Charleston, South Carolina. His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Artforum, The Guardian US, and Guernica, among others.
The exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., reminds us that non-Black people cannot excise themselves from the history of the African Diaspora