Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World at Michael Werner Gallery sees artists from Kara Walker, Celia Paul, Hurvin Anderson, and Francis Picabia bring Rhys to life in a curation by Hilton Als
To truly understand Jean Rhys, it is perhaps easiest to take the writer in her own words. ‘I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing,’ she wrote in Smile Please, her posthumously published autobiography. ‘Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.’
