"Fanta Sylla: Ever since the publication of Maggie Nelson’s The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning in 2011, I have yearned for an investigation into what would be the antonym of cruelty — goodness, care, kindness — similarly pointing to examples in the arts. I am also thinking about Toni Morrison’s questioning of a certain complacency toward evil and the silencing of goodness in literature. “Give It or Leave it” seems to be constructed around legacies, figures, and spaces that reflect those underscrutinized values. Is this something you have been thinking about in conceiving this exhibition? How to carry goodness or care into an artistic space?"