Dionne Brand

Oct 1, 2024 | lithub.com | Dionne Brand

There is a photograph of me taken when I was a child. I do not recognize myself, though I seem to remember the day and the event. The little girl, reputed to be me, in the photograph is about three or four years old. It is the only photograph of this period. They say that I am one of the four children in this photograph; the three others are my sisters and my closest cousin. I recognize them. We are four girls. I am alleged to be second from the left, third from the right.

Sep 16, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Dionne Brand |Saidiya Hartman |John C. Keene

For five decades, Dionne Brand has explored the boundaries of form, writing at the intersection of poetics and critical thought.

Sep 16, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Dionne Brand |Christina Sharpe

I have been trying to think of how one is made and how one makes oneself. I have been thinking that one is made through events—historical, familial, known and unknown; one is made also by what one reads, by what one experiences—all this underpins how one comes to know oneself; and one is made through the action, realization, and analysis that constructs a self. One is made, too, by what Michel-Rolph Trouillot names as silence and power in the production of history.

Sep 16, 2024 | bombmagazine.org | Dionne Brand

Char Jeré’s work immediately reminded me of home. Their first solo exhibition, Zoo or an Orchestra, which opened at Artists Space in New York City at the end of last year, felt lived in, as if Jeré transported their home studio into the exhibition.

Sep 11, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Dionne Brand

By Dionne Brand September 11, 2024 There is a painting by the Eritrean American artist Ficre Ghebreyesus named Solitary Boat in Red and Blue. It is a painting I find utterly compelling, utterly seductive—perhaps because I love the color blue, and who doesn’t? But I find the blue and this painting so luminous, so doubled. Ghebreyesus’s boat drifts on an opalescent bluish green sea along a smoke-bush green, emerald sky.