Simone Leigh (Eva Respini, ed.), DelMonico Books: Toronto.

“Clay—diﬀerentiated by its own unique mix of minerals--illite, kaolinite, chlorite, sepiolite, smectite, bentonite—oﬀers a map of its own making. Each amalgam bears the inscriptions of the land from which it came, of the collisions that made it manifest, and of the social worlds that made of it a commodity. Clay remembers from whence it came. It is from whence it came. Like sand, clay is an earthly expression of emplacement. For these reasons, clay too has a kind of perfect memory. At this exhibition’s monumental scale, Leigh calls us to reflect not only on its pliability, but also on clay's ability to mold us in turn. Born of the elemental alchemy of rock touching water and that rock touching air, clay embodies Leigh's insistence upon remembrance, an evocative parallel to her primary work ethic: citation.”