Across their wide-ranging conversation in the book, they explore the full gamut of Knowles’s creative interests, both formal—movement, architecture, fashion, and expanding the boundaries of live performance—and theoretical, touching on the many Black women who have shaped her approach to art-making, from Katherine McKittrick to Saidiya Hartman. “I love how Solange so often pays homage to the Black women artists and thinkers who have inspired her,” Wayne Sultan adds. “So much of her work reminds Black women that we should always hold close the importance of our perspectives, our expressions.
“It extends traditions of Black feminist thought and aesthetics that emphasize the power of our ideas and labor to refuse what doesn’t honor us and instead imagine and construct the spaces that should hold us,” she continues. “Our vantage points are so often marginalized, and her work provides such an inspiring example of what it looks like when we as Black women center our own desires, needs, beliefs, journeys.”
Most of all, however, the team behind the book—and the original performance—hopes it serves as both a rare window into Knowles’s creative process and a physical artifact that captures the original performance in Venice while standing up all on its own. “I hope people are excited to dive into the incredibly rich archive of the performance that the book provides—the photographs, architectural renderings and drawings, film stills, the musical compositions,” Wayne Sultan adds. “You really get such an in-depth view of every detail. The graphic design, color palette, notational system, paper cuts—all these aspects of the book as an object extend the life of the performance and are in conversation with Solange’s body of work in general.”
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