Dark O’Clock addresses the work of five artists who purposely obscure or subvert simple ideological readings of their work and repeatedly showcase beguiling strategies of seduction to separate the viewer from ideological concerns. 

“I’m really into black Americans’ he whispered. ‘Especially when they humiliate me.’ ‘Well,’ I replied, ‘For starters, I really hate your hair.”

—from the series Snapshots, by Glenn Ligon