A selection of bronze sculptures by Simone Leigh will be on view in Room 1 of the Pavilions. Sentinel (Mami Wata), 2020–21, features an abstracted female form encircled by a serpent. Leigh describes the work as “my interpretation of a West African water spirit, a deity who has destructive powers as well as creative-generative ones.” Placed nearby will be Sharifa, 2022, a portrait of the artist’s friend, writer and activist Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts; and installed in the Water Court and visible from Room 1 is Last Garment, 2022. Depicting a woman washing clothes by hand, the work references a late 19th-century postcard that marketed Jamaica as a "tropical paradise" and critiques the exploitation of images from the African diaspora in colonial narratives.