Heather Hart: She Cuts Through Worlds

Through her interdisciplinary practice Heather Hart fuses fabricated and historical belief systems; legends that have been bequeathed through generations mixed with invention and intuition. She is captivated by the slippage, the liminal space, between truth and fiction, oral and written histories; between what one says and what the other hears. Hart is interested in the communication between the public and the artist, the public and the work, and public with each other in a space. She is interested in cognition as it intersects with the built environment, historical records and the Black fantastic. Hart co-founded the nonprofit Black Lunch Table, most recently was a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University.

Zoë Hopkins is a writer and critic based in New York. She received her BA in Art History and African American Studies at Harvard University, and is currently working on her MA in Modern and Contemporary Art at Columbia University. Her writing has been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Artforum, Cultured and Hyperallergic.