Lorna Simpson's photography: gold afros, chess players and 50s glamour
The US artist's long overdue retrospective at Baltic in Gateshead makes viewers question everything they see with its interrogations of race, identity and memoryWhen she was 12, Lorna Simpson took part in a dance peformance at the Lincoln Centre in New York, dressed in a gold body suit and matching shoes. It was, she has recalled, "like performing from a black hole " I knew immediately it was not for me."What perturb…