Derica Shields is a writer from South London. ‘A Heavy Nonpresence’, her oral history project on Black Londoners’ accounts of the British welfare state, was published by Triple Canopy in 2021. She is completing ‘Bad Practice’, a book about failure, for Book Works.
A new survey at Palazzo Grassi, Venice, positions Mehretu amid a wider web of artists, musicians and theorists – including Paul Pfeiffer, Tacita Dean, Fred Moten, Pharaoh Sanders and Huma Bhabha
