Photo-based artist and filmmaker Lorna Simpson is considered one of the key representatives of Black-American visual culture. Emerging in the 1980s, Lorna Simpson was in 1993 the first African-American woman ever to show in the Venice Biennale and to have a solo exhibition in the Projects´ series of The Museum of Modern Art in New York. She is also one of very few Black-American artists ever to have exhibited at Documenta, in 1987 and 2002. Simpson´s well-known fragmented photographs combining images with fragments of text create mysterious, quiet works that reflect the silence of a portion of society African-American women rarely if ever represented in art. ´
