In the Wake: On Blackness and Being ICA Branded Each piece is assembled with

Each piece is assembled with such precision

grains and desserts

and thimble-sized ceramics

and Liz Deschenes

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being ICA Branded Each piece is assembled withby Christina Sharpe In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple registers of "wake"the path behind a ship, keeping watch with the dead, coming to consciousnessSharpe illustrates how Black lives are swept up and animated by the afterlives of slavery, and she delineates what