The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Effect: Artists Weigh in on His Enduring Influence 

In his influential book Poetics of Relation (1990),Édouard Glissant advocated for “the right to opacity for everyone,” referring to the ways individuals might, through art, speak from their perspective while preserving all the nuances of their humanity, rather than flattening or reducing it for easy legibility or categorization. No one exemplifies this better than Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957–1996), who was working around the time Glissant wrote the book, creating art tha