Maggley Vielot

Maggley Vielot is a Program Associate at the Brooklyn Rail.

Lloyd Foster’s Height and Soil, curated by Destiny Gray, transforms the gallery window into both a portal and mirror. Installed at street level, Foster’s work celebrates the local community.

Installation view: Lloyd Foster: Height and Soil, Long Gallery Harlem, New York, 2025–26. Courtesy Long Gallery Harlem. Photo: Andrew Godreaux.

Walking through Malick Sidibé’s Regardez-moi [Look at Me] I began to think of photographs as monuments of memory. Taken in the years after Mali gained independence from French colonial rule, 1963–2008, this archive chronicles an open moment in Malian history where the people of Mali had the opportunity to define their national identity.

Malick Sidibé, Untitled, ca. 1976/2004. Vintage gelatin silver print, glass, paint, cardboard, tape, and string, 10 5/8 × 7 7/8 inches. © Malick Sidibé. Courtesy of the Estate of Malick Sidibé and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photo: Dan Bradica Studio.

Sequestered moons, silhouettes of stilettos, stamped lips, and perching birds are nothing I would think to group together. Yet they sensibly coexist in Barkley L. Hendricks’s Space is The Place.

Barkley L. Hendricks, Untitled, 1981. Oil, acrylic and aluminum leaf on linen, 72 x 40 x 1 1/4 inches. © Barkley L. Hendricks. Courtesy of the Estate of Barkley L. Hendricks and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

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