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mods: Mask, conceal, carry Tiona Nekkia McClodden Tiona Nekkia McClodden McClodden, Tiona Nekkia creator artist. Haynes, Ebony L. editor, contributor. 52 Walker (Gallery) host institution. text bibliography biography exhibition catalogs. interviews. Exhibition catalogs Exhibition catalogs. Interviews. Catalogues d'exposition. Interviews. nyu 2023 monographic eng print 109 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. "McClodden's expansive practice comprises film, installation, painting, and sculpture in addition to writing and curating. Encompassing the personal, the historical, and the mythic, her work considers the presence and absence of the black figure as well as the aesthetic strategies of illumination and opacity that subvert available modes of representation. Installed under custom lighting, the works in MASK / CONCEAL / CARRY evince a variable blackness, realizing and dissolving figures and forms that are not immediately visible to the viewer. In her work McClodden has engaged with 'masking' and its many meanings and guises, as well as 'unmasking,' in which, as an autistic adult, she attempts to unlearn an assimilationist tendency to suppress one's true self in order to appear neurotypical. This relates closely to 'concealing,' a purposeful act of obstruction that, along with 'carrying,' suggests associations with firearms regulation in the United States. 'Carrying' also touches on deeper psychological aspects regarding trauma and burden that are threaded through the works"-- Curator's note: carrying / Ebony L. Haynes -- Blank / Rhea Dillon -- Process images / Tiona Nekkia McClodden -- Dog poem / Simone White -- In conversation / Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Simone White -- Who Im finna teach with theory how not to kill me? / Tiona Nekkia McClodden -- Plates. editor, Ebony L. Haynes. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at 52 Walker, New York, NY, July 13-October 8, 2022. Tiona Nekkia McClodden [she/her] is a visual artist, filmmaker, and cura…