EventsThe New Social Environment#1341
E. Jane: Cryptid or let the body be
Featuring Jane and Zoë Hopkins
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Artist E. Jane joins Rail contributor Zoë Hopkins for a conversation on Zoom.
In this Talk
E. Jane

Photo Credit: Guarionex Rodriguez Jr.
E. Jane is an interdisciplinary artist and musician. Their recent work includes images, video, installation, sound, text, and soft sculpture, focusing on Black femme interiority, surveillance, labor, and performance. Frustrated with the hypervisibility of the black femme body, their recent installations and performances have troubled how and when the Black femme body is displayed by intentionally distorting or hiding the body, prompting viewers to actively engage in seeing. Jane thinks about the performance of gender as a type of labor that the Black femme—and by extension, the Black diva—participates in. They are curious about what the diva perceives, how she feels, and what she desires.
Zoë Hopkins

Zoë Hopkins is a writer and critic based in New York. She received her BA in Art History and African American Studies at Harvard University, and is currently working on her MA in Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University. Her writing has been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, Cultured and Hyperallergic.
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