Tongues

Artist Sonia Boyce (British, born 1962)

Date1997

DimensionsOverall: 82 5/8 × 82 5/8 in. (209.9 × 209.9 cm)
Photograph (each): 39 3/8 × 39 3/8 in. (100 × 100 cm)

Mediumblack and white photograph mounted on Dibond

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LineMrs. George W. Stevens Fund

Object number

2025.164A-D

Not on View

DescriptionTongues is comprised of four individual black and white photographs mounted on Dibond. Each of the four photographs tightly frames the lower region of a face focusing on the underside of a tongue.

Published ReferencesSusan Fillin-Yeh, Marcus Verhagen, and Gilane Tawadros, Recent Sonia Boyce: La, La, La, Portland, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, 2001, p. 6, illustrated, p. 28.c.f. Mark Crinson, ed. Sonia Boyce. Performance, London, Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva), 1998, p. 12-13 (another edition illustrated).Comparative Referencesc.f. Sophie Orlando, ed. Sonia Boyce. Thoughtful Disobedience, Dijon, Les Presses du Réel, 2017, p. 42 (another edition illustrated). c.f. Emma Ridgway and Courtney J. Martin, Sonia Boyce. Feeling Her Way, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2022, p. 53 (another edition illustrated). c.f. Sophie Orlando and Tessa Jackson, Scat, Sonia Boyce. Sound and Collaboration, London, Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) and Rivington Place, 2023, p. 14(another edition illustrated).