In 1801, Thomas Stothard drew the Sable Venus, inspired by Botticelli’s 15th-century masterpiece. He pictured an African woman standing on a half shell, being towed to the Americas by a school of dolphins. In 1810, a South African woman named Sarah Baartman was enslaved and taken to London, where she was put onstage in a freak show titled Hottentot Venus. With these fetishized depictions of their race and gender as a springboard, 18 Black women have come together to reclaim the narratives around Black femininity. Forty photographic works are on view, and they are radical. —Elena Clavarino