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Lose Yourself in the Interactive Folder Solange Made with Tate Modern

"Seventy States" will be displayed tonight (25 August) at the London gallery, and made available online.
Lauren O'Neill
London, GB
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Solange's skills as a multi-disciplinary artist are, at this point, kind of unmatched at her level: she's a musician, a dancer, a visual artist, a poet and a writer, and her resumé is an inspiring and formidable one. In a new project commissioned by Tate Modern, in response to their current Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power exhibition, she has rolled a number of her talents together to create an interactive 'digital dossier' called Seventy States.

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The project combines concepts originated on her A Seat at the Table music videos for "Cranes in the Sky" and "Don't Touch My Hair," with two new, untitled poems, and a new performance piece called "We Sleep in Our Clothes." It'll be projected at Tate Modern's Uniqlo Tate Late event tonight, and it's also online via Tate's website.

Of the collaboration with Tate, Solange said "I wanted to create a specific scenography through movement and landscape to communicate my states of process through this record, I decided to do this through a visual language."

Much like everything else she touches, the interactive is beautiful and thought-provoking (I'd highly recommend having a click through). Scrolling through it feels like being led on a walk through Solange's process, quietly following in her footsteps as she gives you a private tour past everything she mulled over before making her masterpiece of an album. For those in London, it's bound to be pretty breathtaking on a large scale at Tate later on tonight.

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