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Steffani Jemison: Plant You Now, Dig You Later Artist’s largest-ever solo exhibition examines language as power and resistance

NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS — In her largest solo exhibition to date, New York-based artist Steffani Jemison uses the complicated role of language and literacy in black history to explore narration, abstraction, citizenship, education, and the role of the archive. At MASS MoCA, Jemison presents a sound work and an excerpt from a novella, along with her formally stripped-down, conceptually layered, and alluringly enigmatic photographs and drawings. The works center on …