# @gettymuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CosxRJkPUg0
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34227707-gettymuseum-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-02-15T22:18:20.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty (@gettymuseum) — https://gondola.cc/gettymuseum

## Caption

There is a galaxy within you.

Artist Lorna Simpson created this collage, which mixes commercial photographs of models sourced from iconic African American magazines "Ebony" and "Jet" with 19th-century celestial prints.

The collage is mounted on handmade paper dyed indigo. The color calls to mind the deep blue expanse of the night sky, and also references the history of injustice against enslaved Black populations, who were exploited in the production of indigo dye.

For Simpson, it's important to reclaim historical representations of Black women. By layering portraits of these women over the infinite universe, she creates a "beautiful kind of explosion" that defies the body, race, gender, and sexuality.

 

📷 Lifetimes, 2021, Lorna Simpson. Getty Museum. © Lorna Simpson

#BlackHistoryMonth #LornaSimpson #Photographers #ContemporaryArt

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