"A few thoughts on art:
If it doesn’t immediately conjure an image then it doesn’t have one, yet.
If it takes you to a place that feels lonely, forget it.
If it reminds you of your childhood keep it.
It it calls to your attention a specific political event that you didn’t know about, respect it.
If it is made in kindness you will never know.
If it is made without kindness you will never know.
If it makes you feel inadequate, less intelligent, less sensitive, abandon it immediately, leave.
(If someone tells you that feeling that way is part of maturing your taste, leave the conversation).
If it is challenging to understand fully, work harder, ask questions, ask more questions.
If it costs more to be able to see it than you pay to take care of your basic daily needs, don’t go.
If it is reserved for someone else, don’t fight for it, let them have it, whatever it is, let them have it.
If the amount of time it takes you to get to it starts to feel like an odyssey, keep going, find a way.
If the opinion you have of it is second-hand, gossip, make the assumption you haven’t seen it.
If you learned about it in school, or through a parallel process, give it a chance, a quick chance.
If you learned about from someone you admire and trust, give it a longer chance.
If it makes you want to make things, cherish it forever."
Josseline Black works where art advising, academic research, writing, and curatorial practice intersect in power. Her approach is grounded in rigorous scholarship, close looking, and cultural awareness, allowing her to move fluently between artists, collectors, and institutions.
She builds relationships slowly and with intention, privileging care, trust, and long-term commitment over speed or spectacle. Deeply invested in artists’ practices, she advocates with patience and precision, while guiding collectors, and institutions toward depth, context, and lasting resonance.
She curates intuitively, with careful regard for the anthropology of the exhibition space, the lived rhythm of a client’s home, and the theoretical and poetic context of the artwork as it intersects with both.
She holds writing as a parallel and cherished practice—one that attends to desire, subject formation, and attachment as sites through which power is negotiated, resisted, and reimagined.
Music hums beneath it all—a steady, intuitive current shaping how she listens, thinks, moves through ideas, and curates with feeling.
She collaborates readily with leading artists, collectors, and institutions, drawn to rigor, generosity, and shared standards of excellence.
Her practice moves fluidly between international contexts and local worlds, staying attentive to place, people, and presence.
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