Hilton Als was overwhelmed when he first discovered the author of ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’. A new exhibition that portrays her through artworks that evoke her spirit
When I began thinking about this exhibition several years ago, I began to imagine how to make a kind of portrait of the artist through art. How we could not so much capture but render what MacInnes said in his review was a hallmark of Rhys’s writing: her “lucid yet pictorial” style. Which visual artists spoke to me or evoked Rhys’s language most powerfully, and which artists would Rhys, in turn, be intrigued by?
