Shifting Poetics: A Poetry Workshop with Rhea Dillon

Floor 6

Artist and poet Rhea Dillon invites visitors to a writing workshop that considers the poetics that we can see and feel from artworks in the exhibition Shifting Landscapes. In this workshop, Dillon will share a selection of poems and short poetic texts that resonate with the artworks and themes of the exhibition, along with offering writing exercises that prompt participants to pay attention to form, color, materiality, history, context, and sociopolitical landscapes.   

Rhea Dillon is an artist, writer, and poet based in London. Dillon works across sculpture, painting, olfaction, and wide-ranging materials to articulate an aesthetic of diasporic Blackness grounded in a postcolonial nonbeing. Her art and writing use poet(h)ics, abstraction, and everyday objects to produce distinctive arrangements of sense and affect. She is an Elaine G. Weitzen Studio Program Fellow at the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program 2024–2025 in New York.