Kameelah Janan Rasheed: Out of Bounds 

Production | Exhibition Grant

ECHO DELAY REVERB is a major group exhibition that explores for the first time the reception of and response to 20th century French and Francophone critical theory by American visual artists. In a section of the exhibition that engages with the ways in which the idea of the human has often functioned as a limited and exclusionary category, curator Naomi Beckwith invited Kameelah Janan Rasheed to conceive an immersive, monumental installation across roughly 1,500 square feet of exhibition space that articulates the lineages and relationships prevalent in the show. With the newly commissioned installation Out of Bounds, the artist constructs a multisensorial environment involving sculpture, video, and works on paper which centers on the story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, British Caribbean twin sisters who invented a private language that was long considered unintelligible. Through this work, Kameelah Janan Rasheed explores errantry, dispersion, and dislocation in relation to disability and language.