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Hank Willis Thomas
South Africa Righteous Space by Hank Willis Thomas is concerned with history and identity, with the way race and ‘blackness’ has not only been informed but deliberately shaped and constructed by various forces – first through colonialism and slavery, and more recently through mass media and advertising – and reminds us of the financial and economic stakes that have always been involved in representations of race.
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Hank Willis Thomas
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Shot in black and white and printed on a glittery carborundum surface, Black Hands, White Cotton both confronts and abstracts the subject of its title. As with many of his works, the artist has taken a found image and manipulated it to draw out and dramatize the formal contrast between the black hands holding white cotton. Cotton, of course is one of the most familiar fabric sources to us, and becomes incredibly soft once processed.
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Hank Willis Thomas
The image is borrowed from protests during Civil Rights where African Americans in the south would carry signs with the same message to assert their rights against segregation and racism. Historically, in countries such as the US and South Africa, the term “boy” was used as a pejorative and racist insult towards men of color, slaves in particular, signifying their alleged subservient status as being less than men. In response, Am I Not A Man And A Brother?
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Hank Willis Thomas
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Intentionally Left Blanc alludes to the technical process of its own (non)production; a procedure known as retro-reflective screen printing in which the image is only fully brought to life through its exposure to flash lighting. Using a found photograph depicting a passionate crowd of African Americans—their attitude suggesting the fervor of a civil-rights era audience— Intentionally Left Blanc reverts in its exposed, “positive” format to an image in which select faces are whitened out and erased, the exact inverse of the same view in its “negative” condition. This dialectic of light and dark re-emerges when we view the same faces again, only this time black and featureless, a scattering of disembodied heads amidst a sea of white.
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Hank Willis Thomas
Bread and Roses takes its name from a phrase famously used on picket signs and immortalized by the poet James Oppenheim in 1911. “Bread for all, and Roses, too’—a slogan of the women in the West,” is Oppenheim’s opening line, alluding to the workers’ goal for wages and conditions that would allow them to do more than simply survive. Thomas’ painting includes several black, white, brown, yellow, and red raised fists—clenched and high in the air in the internationally recognized symbol of solidarity, resistance, and unity.
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Hank Willis Thomas
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Thomas’ lenticular text-based works require viewers to shift positions as they view them in order to fully absorb their content. Meaning, therefore, changes depending on one’s perspective—and in the case of Thomas’ installation, only emerges when one knows that there is always something hidden, always more to one of his works than immediately meets the eye. This lenticular print with text shifts as you walk in front of it from its title, “Black Imitates White” to the inverse, “White Imitates Black”(and some other possibilities in between) emphasizing that there are always at least two perspectives to the same scenario, and thereby encouraging us as viewers to consider them all together rather than trying to identify with any one subjectivity.
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Hank Willis Thomas
Like many of his other sculptural works, the source of I am the Greatest is actually a historical photograph of an identical button pin from the 1960s. I am the Greatest presents the famous quote by Mohammad Ali to think about his important presence in the African American community. In dialogue with the painting I am a Man, also in the Kadist collection, this assertion that begins the same way takes the line from the protest poster several steps further.
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Ron Terada
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
The three Maiko s were included in Ron Terada’s 2008 exhibition, Voight–Kampf , at Catriona Jeffries gallery. More ambitious in size and subject matter, this show with its complex video installation marked a new path for Terada’s work. Voight-Kampf is based on a scene from Ridley Scott’s 1982 movie Blade Runner in which a giant advertising billboard in the midst of a dystopian city of Los Angeles in the future displays a geisha eating candy.
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Jes Fan
Jes Fan’s video work Xenophoria , as opposed to the term ‘xenophobia’, refers to a love of the foreign and is inspired by the name of a mysterious species of aquatic carrier shell. This creature, Xenophora pallidae, calcifies free-floating objects in the water to its spine, bringing foreign bodies into its own structure. Likewise, Xenophoria stages a delirious search for the melanin pigment – the molecule responsible for skin color – as it manifests in both human and non-human bodies.
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Tracey Rose
“Maqe II” is at first glance a romantic image of three diaphanous angels hovering in the luminous sky over a South African township. A closer inspection reveals that the apparition is the appropriated figure of Marie Antoinette from the artist’s Ciao Bella series (2001) with the addition of a butchered cake. The figure is Rose herself dressed in costumed made of trash bags holding a haunting paper mâché mask.
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Javier Castro
In the video Negro sobre Negro (Black on Black) all we see is a completely black screen on a monitor that is recessed into a wall, also painted black. Gradually, the face of a man becomes visible as he steps out of the darkness and closer to the camera. As suggested by Castro, the color of this man’s skin allows him to pass unnoticed perhaps literally, but also metaphorically as he alludes with certain humor to the iconic work Black Square by Suprematist artist Kazimir Malevich, often referred to as the “zero point of painting” in Western art-historical discourses.
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Javier Castro
In the video Blanco sobre Blanco (White on White) , we see a white man appearing in a white screen embedded into a white wall— alluding to Malevich’s White on White series. Analogously, in Castro’s related work Negro sobre Negro (Black on Black) all we see is a completely black screen on a monitor that is recessed into a wall, also painted black. Gradually, the face of a man becomes visible as he steps out of the darkness and closer to the camera.
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Lubaina Himid
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
In 2007 Lubaina Himid began a series of works she later called Negative Positives: The Guardian Archive (2007-2017). What started out as a one-year project, in the year celebrating the bicentenary of the abolition of slavery in the UK, continued for a decade. Taking a page or a spread of The Guardian (the most liberal newspaper in the UK and her newspaper of choice), Himid sought to expose the unconscious bias manifested in a paper that prides itself on its non-discriminatory policies.
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Lubaina Himid
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
In 2007 Lubaina Himid began a series of works she later called Negative Positives: The Guardian Archive (2007-2017). What started out as a one-year project, in the year celebrating the bicentenary of the abolition of slavery in the UK, continued for a decade. Taking a page or a spread of The Guardian (the most liberal newspaper in the UK and her newspaper of choice), Himid sought to expose the unconscious bias manifested in a paper that prides itself on its non-discriminatory policies.
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Abigail DeVille
The work La Loge Harlem focuses on the history of Harlem and its development over the last 200 years. It was a playground for the rich in the 19th century and where Old New York had its summer homes and diversions. The center image is a portrait of the artist’s grandmother when she was 16 in 1949.
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Paulo Nazareth
In 2011, Paulo Nazareth completed a unique journey of several thousand miles. Nazareth left Minas Gerais, Brazil and walked across all of Latin America to the United States to take part in an exhibition during the Miami edition of Art Basel. The series Notícias de América , described by the artist as a residency in transit, or perhaps an accidental residency, is the result of a year’s elaboration of a body of work that is the direct result of an entanglement of human affairs experienced along the way.
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Paulo Nazareth
In 2011, Paulo Nazareth completed a unique journey of several thousand miles. Nazareth left Minas Gerais, Brazil and walked across all of Latin America to the United States to take part in an exhibition during the Miami edition of Art Basel. The series Notícias de América , described by the artist as a residency in transit, or perhaps an accidental residency, is the result of a year’s elaboration of a body of work that is the direct result of an entanglement of human affairs experienced along the way.
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Paulo Nazareth
In 2011, Paulo Nazareth completed a unique journey of several thousand miles. Nazareth left Minas Gerais, Brazil and walked across all of Latin America to the United States to take part in an exhibition during the Miami edition of Art Basel. The series Notícias de América , described by the artist as a residency in transit, or perhaps an accidental residency, is the result of a year’s elaboration of a body of work that is the direct result of an entanglement of human affairs experienced along the way.
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Hung-Chin Peng
In Excerpts from the Analects of Confucius , Peng Hung-Chih explores the relationship between Confucianism and religion. Specifically, the piece questions the influence of Confucian teachings on the role of the intellectual in contemporary Chinese society. While Confucianism has its own ritual systems and temples, it is not known to be overly concerned with supernatural beings such as gods and demons.
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Doreen Lynette Garner
Known But to God: The Dug Up, Dissected, and Disposed for the Sake of Medicine by Doreen Lynnette Garner is a small, suspended sculpture composed of glass, silicone, steel, epoxy putty, pearls, Swarovski crystals, and whiskey. At once attractive and repulsive, the sculpture combines objects of adornment with what appears to be viscera. The sculpture’s curious delicacy evokes a ritualistic catharsis, in response to persistent forms of medical racial violence and objectification for Black people in America and around the world.
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Wong Wai Yin
Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages. The artist used found images from the internet, including a viral photo of an elderly woman who took part in the 2016 “Black Monday” strike against a proposed anti-abortion law in Poland, and another image taken the same year of a group of protestors in the United Kingdom, rallying for the Black Lives Matter movement. Drawing parallels with Hank Willis Thomas’s I Am a Man (2013) painting in the KADIST Collection, Wong employs the visual language and terminology of mass media, specifically borrowing images from protests on civil rights issues.
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Wong Wai Yin
Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages. The artist used found images from the internet, including a viral photo of an elderly woman who took part in the 2016 “Black Monday” strike against a proposed anti-abortion law in Poland, and another image taken the same year of a group of protestors in the United Kingdom, rallying for the Black Lives Matter movement. Drawing parallels with Hank Willis Thomas’s I Am a Man (2013) painting in the KADIST Collection, Wong employs the visual language and terminology of mass media, specifically borrowing images from protests on civil rights issues.
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Wong Wai Yin
Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages. The artist used found images from the internet, including a viral photo of an elderly woman who took part in the 2016 “Black Monday” strike against a proposed anti-abortion law in Poland, and another image taken the same year of a group of protestors in the United Kingdom, rallying for the Black Lives Matter movement. Drawing parallels with Hank Willis Thomas’s I Am a Man (2013) painting in the KADIST Collection, Wong employs the visual language and terminology of mass media, specifically borrowing images from protests on civil rights issues.
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Wong Wai Yin
Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages. The artist used found images from the internet, including a viral photo of an elderly woman who took part in the 2016 “Black Monday” strike against a proposed anti-abortion law in Poland, and another image taken the same year of a group of protestors in the United Kingdom, rallying for the Black Lives Matter movement. Drawing parallels with Hank Willis Thomas’s I Am a Man (2013) painting in the KADIST Collection, Wong employs the visual language and terminology of mass media, specifically borrowing images from protests on civil rights issues.
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Julio Cesar Morales
The video Interrupted Passage presents a performance Morales staged in the former home of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, a mid-nineteenth-century Mexican general serving in California. Reenacted here is Vallejo’s acquiescence to Americans who were attempting to overthrow Mexican governance of the region. When a small militia arrived at Vallejo’s house to arrest him, he invited them in and shared a meal.
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Julio Cesar Morales
Contrabando is a work that references the larger sociological phenomenon in which immigrant economic strategies come to infiltrate urban landscapes. It is a study of the realities and consequences of exploited labor that simultaneously aims to record the living history of labor.
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Julio Cesar Morales
Drawing & Print (Drawing & Print)
Julio Cesar Morales’s watercolor drawings, Undocumented Intervention , show a variety of surprising hiding places assumed by people trying to cross into the United States without documentation. Morales drew inspiration from both his childhood near the United States-Mexico border as well as from photographic documentation on U. S. government websites.
Hank Willis Thomas
- location: New York, New York
- year born: 1976
- gender: male
- nationality: American
- home town: Plainfield, New Jersey
Julio Cesar Morales
- location: San Francisco, California
- year born: 1966
- gender: male
- nationality: Mexican
- home town: Tijuana, Mexico
Abraham Oghobase
Abraham Onoriode Oghobase’s artistic practice explores identity in relation to socio-economic and historic geographies...
Wong Wai Yin
Wong Wai Yin is an interdisciplinary artist who experiments with a variety of media ranging from painting, sculpture, collage, performance, video, installations and photography...
American Artist
American Artist makes experimental work in the form of sculpture, video, and software that comments on histories of race, technology and forms of knowledge production...
Firenze Lai
Firenze Lai is a Hong Kong painter known for her atmospheric portraits that explore the ways in which contemporary life causes people to adjust to their surrounding conditions in disturbing ways...
Paulo Nazareth
Born in 1977 in the city of Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Paulo Nazareth now lives as a global nomad...
Helina Metaferia
Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across collage, assemblage, video, performance, and social engagement...
Shilpa Gupta
- location: Mumbai, India
- year born: 1976
- gender: female
- nationality: Indian
- home town: Mumbai, India
Javier Castro
Javier Castro was born in the in the neighbourhood of San Isidro in the heart of Habana Vieja, Cuba, where he lives and works...
Em'kal Eyongakpa
Em’kal Eyongakpa was born in Cameroon in 1981...
Lubaina Himid
- location: Zanzibar, Tanzania
- year born: 1954
- gender: female
- nationality: Tanzanian
Moe Satt
Moe Satt is a Burmese visual and performance artist who uses his own body as a symbolic field for exploring self, identity, embodiment, and political resistance...
Yael Bartana
- location: ‘Afula, Yisra'el
- year born: 1970
- gender: female
- nationality: Israeli
Danh Vo
- location: Berlin, Germany
- year born: 1975
- gender: male
- nationality: Vietnamese and Danish
- home town: Ba Ria, Vietnam
Johanna Calle
- location: Bogota, Colombia
- year born: 1965
- nationality: Colombian
- home town: Bogota, Colombia
Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela
Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela, two young Israeli women artists work collaboratively or individually by project...
Nalini Malani
- year born: 1946
- gender: female
- nationality: Indian
- home town: Karachi, Pakistan
Tao Hui
Tao Hui indeed believes that fairy tales can ease people’s intensive mind...
Elsa Werth
Through an economy of means, Elsa Werth makes purposefully non-spectacular gestures as forms of resistance, disruption, and transformation...
Guan Xiao
Guan Xiao is known for her videos composed primarily of found images and videos and her sculptures that explore the logic by which things relate to one another...
Juan Capistran
- location: Los Angeles, California
- gender: male
- nationality: Mexican American
- home town: Guadalajara, Mexico
Sinzo Aanza
Sinzo Aanza is a visual artist, poet, and playwright...
Martha Colburn
Martha Colburn is known for hand-made animations, which she creates through puppetry, collage, and paint-on-glass techniques...
Hung-Chin Peng
There is a palpable urgency in the work of Taiwan-based Peng Hung-Chih, who uses video, sculpture, installation, and painting as means to criticize society...
Ron Terada
Ron Terada belongs to a generation of Vancouver-based artists that follows the well-known Vancouver School of photoconceptualists which includes Jeff Wall, Stan Douglas, and Ian Wallace...
Vuth Lyno
Vuth Lyno’s artistic practice operates at a crucial intersection of contemporary Khmer culture...
Xaviera Simmons
- location: Brooklyn, New York
- year born: 1974
- gender: female
- nationality: American
- home town: New York, New York
Martin Kippenberger
- location: Vienna, Austria
- year born: 1953
- gender: male
- nationality: German
- home town: Dortmund, Germany
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In contrast to the westernized search for one’s personal identity, Polynesian cultures express their identities collectively, through symbolism and tattoos...
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Explore The Hobby Cave: UK's Largest Hobby Exhibition - FAD Magazine Skip to content By Mark Westall • 25 January 2024 Share — Members of the public are invited to take part in The Hobby Cave , the largest-ever exhibition of the UK’s hobbies...
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The photographer’s queer and Muslim identity gives him a distinct perspective...
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Hyperallergic’s Art Book Gift Guide Skip to content We’re not sure what we like more — giving or getting books — but we do know they make perfect presents...
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about 5 months ago (12/12/2023)
Guts Gallery, the Bold Space Shaking up the London Art Scene | AnOther As their new group show opens in Hackney, founder Ell Pennick talks about the daring ethos behind Guts Gallery, and challenging the art world’s set systems December 07, 2023 Text Emily Steer Many London galleries claim to rethink the mould, but few go ahead and do it with such conviction as Guts ...
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about 5 months ago (12/11/2023)
The Ruins Should Be Inhabited as Part of a Process of Repair Skip to content A tracing of a photograph one cannot show but still can view at the ICRC archive under the original title: "Tul karem region, women and children part of the transfer of 1100 persons leaving the Jewish zone on their way to the Arab zone under the auspices of the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross),” reference number: V-P-PS-N-0-4-2679 (tracing by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay from her 2019 book Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism ) Why rewrite a text after having written and published it a few weeks earlier? Because something horrible is happening in Palestine and it is happening to us too, once again...
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about 5 months ago (12/09/2023)
Aesthetica Magazine - 50 Years of Hip Hop 50 Years of Hip Hop “I was watching a crowd, and everybody was waiting for the breaks to come in...
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about 5 months ago (12/08/2023)
A Reader on Post-Colonialism and Decolonial Practices | Contemporary And search for something search C& AMÉRICA LATINA EN FR MEMBERSHIP EN FR Editorial All Editorial Features Installation Views Inside the Library Interviews News Opinions Events All Events Art Fairs Conferences Exhibitions Festivals Performances Screenings Talks / Workshops C& Projects C& Artists’ Editions C& Commissions C& Center of Unfinished Business Show me your shelves! C& Education Mentoring Program Critical Writing Workshops Lectures / Seminars Membership Opportunities Print C& Audio Archive On Tour Places Explore IN CONVERSATION INSTALLATION VIEW WE GOT ISSUES DETOX LABORATORY OF SOLIDARITY CONSCIOUS CODES CURRICULUM OF CONNECTIONS LOVE ACTUALLY OVER THE RADAR BLACK CULTURES MATTER INSIDE THE LIBRARY LOOKING BACK Follow About Contact Newsletter Advertise Imprint Data protection Membership Contemporary And (C&) is funded by: Editorial All Editorial Features Installation Views Inside the Library Interviews News Opinions Events All Events Art Fairs Conferences Exhibitions Festivals Performances Screenings Talks / Workshops C& Projects C& Artists’ Editions C& Commissions C& Center of Unfinished Business Show me your shelves! C& Education Mentoring Program Critical Writing Workshops Lectures / Seminars Membership Opportunities Print C& Audio Archive On Tour Places Explore IN CONVERSATION INSTALLATION VIEW WE GOT ISSUES DETOX LABORATORY OF SOLIDARITY CONSCIOUS CODES CURRICULUM OF CONNECTIONS LOVE ACTUALLY OVER THE RADAR BLACK CULTURES MATTER INSIDE THE LIBRARY LOOKING BACK GO TO C& AMÉRICA LATINA About Contact Newsletter Advertise Imprint Data protection Membership Special Focus A Reader on Post-Colonialism and Decolonial Practices We want to share some resources on the important movements that help us to see a more differentiated picture of these complex times....
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about 5 months ago (11/27/2023)
Has Banksy Finally Revealed His True Identity? | Observer A Welsh politician...
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about 5 months ago (11/27/2023)
Philemona Williamson — The Borders of Innocence — Semiose Gallery — Exhibition — Slash Paris Login Newsletter Twitter Facebook Philemona Williamson — The Borders of Innocence — Semiose Gallery — Exhibition — Slash Paris English Français Home Events Artists Venues Magazine Videos Back Philemona Williamson — The Borders of Innocence Exhibition Painting Philemona Williamson, A Pause Requested, 2020 Courtesy de l’artiste et galerie Semiose, Paris Philemona Williamson The Borders of Innocence Ends in 19 days: November 18 → December 30, 2023 In her more than four decades-long distinguished career, the American artist Philemona Williamson has created an evocative and compelling body of work that she describes as “visual poems.” Through the veil of personal memory, Williamson’s opaque narratives recall the beauty, drama, and vagaries of innocence...
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about 10 months ago (06/28/2023)
Artist Spotlight: Jeff Musser – Art and Cake June 27, 2023 June 20, 2023 Author Artist Spotlight: Jeff Musser What does a day in your art practice look like? After I have finished my morning routine of meditation, coffee, and emails, I turn off the Wi-Fi on my phone, put on some music or a lecture/podcast in the background, and I paint for a solid, uninterrupted two hours...
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about 10 months ago (06/28/2023)
Artist Spotlight: Jeff Musser – Art and Cake June 27, 2023 June 20, 2023 Author Artist Spotlight: Jeff Musser What does a day in your art practice look like? After I have finished my morning routine of meditation, coffee, and emails, I turn off the Wi-Fi on my phone, put on some music or a lecture/podcast in the background, and I paint for a solid, uninterrupted two hours...
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about 10 months ago (06/28/2023)
Artist Spotlight: Jeff Musser – Art and Cake June 27, 2023 June 20, 2023 Author Artist Spotlight: Jeff Musser What does a day in your art practice look like? After I have finished my morning routine of meditation, coffee, and emails, I turn off the Wi-Fi on my phone, put on some music or a lecture/podcast in the background, and I paint for a solid, uninterrupted two hours...
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about 18 months ago (10/31/2022)
The Growing Up Anthologies & the Diversity of Being “Brown” | ArtsEquator Skip to content In the latest installment of AWARE’s Growing Up anthology, Diana Rahim finds that in an environment where our experience of race and womanhood may be constricted, personal stories can be powerful acts of re-making and re-narrativising...
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about 19 months ago (10/05/2022)
Toronto art collector has concentrated exclusively on Black artists, and established the Wedge Gallery in Toronto to showcase their work...
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about 19 months ago (10/05/2022)
Morehouse donation: A New York businessman donated a $1 million art collection featuring mostly Black and LGBTQ artists | CNN A New York businessman donated a $1 million art collection to Morehouse College By Alaa Elassar , CNN Updated 4:03 AM EST, Sun December 13, 2020 Link Copied! Ad Feedback McArthur Binion, "DNA:Study," 2020 ©McArthur Binion...
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about 26 months ago (02/22/2022)
Jit Murad: Your Imagination Will Make Us Smile | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Via The Star February 22, 2022 By Fasyali Fadzly and translated by Nabilah Said (1,650 words, 7-minute read) Even though I am a Malaysian theatre practitioner, I am not friends with Jit Murad...
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about 29 months ago (12/21/2021)
Afro-Ecuadoreans Maintain Identity Through Spiritual Practices - The New York Times Lens | Afro-Ecuadoreans Maintain Identity Through Spiritual Practices https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/31/lens/afro-ecuadoreans-identity-spiritual-practices.html Give this article Share Advertisement Continue reading the main story As a teenager growing up in Ecuador, Johis Alarcón was mesmerized by hip-hop culture...
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about 32 months ago (08/27/2021)
Where are the Malays? : Locating the Singaporean Malay in Singa-Pura-Pura | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints August 27, 2021 By Lily Jamaludin (1,368 words, 4-minute read) Singa-Pura-Pura boasts an eclectic collection of short speculative fiction from a minority ethnic group in Singapore, exploring worlds where robots are therapists, prayers are read from preloaded cards, and humans are migrating to Mars...
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about 37 months ago (04/20/2021)
Oppy & Professor Communitas: Meanderings of the Malay male theatremaker | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Five Arts Centre April 20, 2021 By Lily Jamaludin (1,170 words, 4-minute read) A new addition to the genre of online theatre, Oppy & Professor Communitas by Five Arts Centre is a thoughtful, humorous, and self-reflective examination of the role and struggle of Malaysian theatremakers...
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about 38 months ago (03/12/2021)
Brown Is Haram: Kristian-Marc James Paul and Mysara Aljaru reclaim their space | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Courtesy of the artists March 12, 2021 Brown Is Haram: Reconstructing The Brown Narrative is a performance-lecture exploring different aspects of the experience of being brown in Singapore, exploring issues such as social mobility and masculinity...
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about 51 months ago (02/26/2020)
Weekly Southeast Asia Radar: Hallyu love and cementing disaster | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Radar February 26, 2020 ArtsEquator’s Southeast Asia Radar features articles and posts about arts and culture in Southeast Asia, drawn from local and regional websites and publications – aggregated content from outside sources – so we are exposed to a multitude of voices in the region...
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about 53 months ago (12/31/2019)
The top ArtsEquator articles of 2019 | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo courtesy of Akanga Film Asia & Philipp Aldrup Photography December 31, 2019 Here’s a list of the top 10 ArtsEquator articles in 2019: Enter Stage Right: Tay Tong by Art sEquator “It is amazing how one’s identity is so associated with one’s job...
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about 53 months ago (12/05/2019)
Embracing A Bigger Human Identity: “PheNoumenon” by T...
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about 56 months ago (09/13/2019)
Diasporic Dispatches: "The Cardboard Kitchen Project" by FK Co-Lab | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Courtesy of FK Co-Lab September 14, 2019 By Rebecca Goh (977 words, 6-minute read) We step into the dimly-lit theatre of The Lion & Unicorn , a soft, almost dream-like blue wash over the noticeable emptiness of the stage – save for a skeletal cardboard cut-out resembling a door frame, carefully set stage left...
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about 57 months ago (08/15/2019)
What is the music of my country? Race, harmony and diversity in Singapore | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Screengrab for the video of "Our Singapore"...
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about 61 months ago (04/18/2019)
"Miss British": Embodying the Post-Colonial Complaint | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles Photo courtesy of Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay April 18, 2019 By Aparna Nambiar (1440 words, six-minute read) “How has colonialism affected you?” This question flashes upon the giant screens that span the studio walls of The Esplanade Theatre Studio...
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about 64 months ago (01/21/2019)
Music – a propaganda promoting the Khmer Rouge socialist identity (via the Phnom Penh Post) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Articles January 21, 2019 Shortly after their rise to power in April 1975, the Khmer Rouge sought to change the social identity of the Khmer people...
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Martin Kippenberger
1988Martin Kippenberger’s late collages are known for incorporating a wide range of materials, from polaroids and magazine clips to hotel stationery, decals, and graphite drawings...
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Tracey Rose
2001“Maqe II” is at first glance a romantic image of three diaphanous angels hovering in the luminous sky over a South African township...
Kota Ezawa
2002The Simpson Verdict is a three-minute animation by Kota Ezawa that portrays the reading of the verdict during the OJ Simpson trial, known as the “most publicized” criminal trial in history...
Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela
2003In Beyond Guilt the two artists create a portrait of our generation in three parts...
Johanna Calle
Drawing & Print
2003(Drawing & Print) Calle’s drawings all inhabit received forms but alter them to call attention to specific qualities...
Juan Capistran
2005White Minority , is typical of Capistran’s sampling of high art genres and living subcultures in which the artist subsumes an object’s high art pedigree within a vernacular art form...
Julio Cesar Morales
Drawing & Print
2006(Drawing & Print) Julio Cesar Morales’s watercolor drawings, Undocumented Intervention , show a variety of surprising hiding places assumed by people trying to cross into the United States without documentation...
Yael Bartana
2006Yael Bartana’s video work A Declaration was shot in southern Tel Aviv, on the visible border between that city and Jaffa...
Ahmad Fuad Osman
2007Recollections of Long Lost Memories by Ahmad Fuad Osman is a series of 71 black and white sepia-toned archival photographs that chart, with nostalgia, the social encounters between hierarchies of life in the Malay world...
Yael Bartana
2007Yael Bartana received great international attention for the trilogy series And Europe Will be Stunned (2007 – 2011)...
Ron Terada
Drawing & Print
2008(Drawing & Print) The three Maiko s were included in Ron Terada’s 2008 exhibition, Voight–Kampf , at Catriona Jeffries gallery...
Javier Castro
2008In the video Negro sobre Negro (Black on Black) all we see is a completely black screen on a monitor that is recessed into a wall, also painted black...
Hung-Chin Peng
2008In Excerpts from the Analects of Confucius , Peng Hung-Chih explores the relationship between Confucianism and religion...
Julio Cesar Morales
2008The video Interrupted Passage presents a performance Morales staged in the former home of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, a mid-nineteenth-century Mexican general serving in California...
Dinh Q. Lê
2008Hill of Poisonous Trees (three men) (2008) exemplifies the artist’s signature photo-weaving technique, in which he collects diverse found photographs—portraits of anonymous people, stills from blockbuster films, or journalistic images—cuts them into strips, and weaves them into new composition...
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2010-2019
Erick Beltran
Drawing & Print
2010(Drawing & Print) In his posters, prints, and installations, Erick Beltrán employs the language and tools of graphic design, linguistics, typography, and variations in alphabetical forms across cultures; he is specifically interested in how language and meaning form structures that can be misconstrued as universal...
Leung Chi Wo and Wong Sara
2010Office Lady with a Red Umbrella restages a figure from a 1980 postcard made from a photograph from 1950’s...
Julio Cesar Morales
2011Contrabando is a work that references the larger sociological phenomenon in which immigrant economic strategies come to infiltrate urban landscapes...
Wimo Ambala Bayang
2011Composed of four images, the series Sleeping Elephant in the Axis of Yogyakarta (2011) explores the artist’s observation of how Javanese mythology and cosmology have marked the geography of Yogyakarta, the cultural centre of Indonesia...
Jompet Kuswidananto
2011Third Realm (2011) grew out of the artist’s long-term research of Indonesia’s colonial history and the processes of modernization and urbanization that have taken place there...
Maya Watanabe
2011El Contorno (Outlines) is a three-channel video installation that features five actors performing a script—at times individually and at times in unison—choreographically moving across an indistinct urban space...
Johanna Calle
Drawing & Print
2011(Drawing & Print) Johanna Calle’s Abece “K” (2011) is part of a series of drawings (compiled into an artist book called Abece ) based on the alphabet...
Hank Willis Thomas
Drawing & Print
2012(Drawing & Print) Intentionally Left Blanc alludes to the technical process of its own (non)production; a procedure known as retro-reflective screen printing in which the image is only fully brought to life through its exposure to flash lighting...
Hank Willis Thomas
2012Bread and Roses takes its name from a phrase famously used on picket signs and immortalized by the poet James Oppenheim in 1911...
Hank Willis Thomas
Drawing & Print
2012(Drawing & Print) Thomas’ lenticular text-based works require viewers to shift positions as they view them in order to fully absorb their content...
Hank Willis Thomas
2012Like many of his other sculptural works, the source of I am the Greatest is actually a historical photograph of an identical button pin from the 1960s...
Amol k Patil
2012The title of the performance video work Impression by Amol k Patil refers to an Indian tradition...
Aki Sasamoto
2012Poetry Light Stool evokes the spirit of Fluxus, the intermedia movement that encouraged artmaking to be simple, fun, and address everyday life...
Leah Gordon
2012The Caste Portraits Series by Leah Gordon investigates the practice of grading skin color from black to white, which marked the extent of racial mixing in 18th century Haiti...
Nalini Malani
2012Malani draws upon her personal experience of the violent legacy of colonialism and de-colonization in India in this personal narrative that was shown as a colossal six channel video installation at dOCUMENTA (13), but is here adapted to single channel...
Hank Willis Thomas
2013The image is borrowed from protests during Civil Rights where African Americans in the south would carry signs with the same message to assert their rights against segregation and racism...
Firenze Lai
2013Central Station, Alignment, and Sumo are “situation portraits” that present whimsical characters within distorted and troubling worlds...
Firenze Lai
2013Central Station, Alignment, and Argument are “situation portraits” that present whimsical characters within distorted and troubling worlds...
Firenze Lai
2013Central Station, Alignment, and Sumo are “situation portraits” that present whimsical characters within distorted and troubling worlds...
Hank Willis Thomas
2014South Africa Righteous Space by Hank Willis Thomas is concerned with history and identity, with the way race and ‘blackness’ has not only been informed but deliberately shaped and constructed by various forces – first through colonialism and slavery, and more recently through mass media and advertising – and reminds us of the financial and economic stakes that have always been involved in representations of race....
Hank Willis Thomas
Drawing & Print
2014(Drawing & Print) Shot in black and white and printed on a glittery carborundum surface, Black Hands, White Cotton both confronts and abstracts the subject of its title...
Javier Castro
2014In the video Blanco sobre Blanco (White on White) , we see a white man appearing in a white screen embedded into a white wall— alluding to Malevich’s White on White series...
Rossella Biscotti
2014Rossella Biscotti’s “10×10” series investigates the relationship between demographics, data processing, textile manufacturing and social structure...
Shilpa Gupta
Drawing & Print
2014(Drawing & Print) These hand drawn maps are part of an ongoing series begun in 2008 in which Gupta asks ordinary people to sketch outlines of their home countries by memory...
Shilpa Gupta
Drawing & Print
2014(Drawing & Print) These hand drawn maps are part of an ongoing series begun in 2008 in which Gupta asks ordinary people to sketch outlines of their home countries by memory...
Sam Contis
2014Sam Contis’s photographs explore the relationship of bodies to landscape, and the shifting nature of gender identity and expression...
Sam Contis
2014Sam Contis’s photographs explore the relationship of bodies to landscape, and the shifting nature of gender identity and expression...
Titus Kaphar
2016Although the objects depicted in Titus Kaphar’s diptych 2016/1963 might not be immediately recognizable, the work’s title and the inscriptions ‘Alabama 1963’ and ‘North Dakota 2016’ reveal their use as tools of brutal force...
Jill Magid
2016In 1995, the personal and professional archives of the Mexican architect Luis Barragán were acquired (including the rights to the name and the work of the architect) by the Swiss furniture enterprise Vitra...
Cally Spooner
2016The installation Self Tracking (the five stages of grief) was realized from a performance that is to be re-activated...
Abigail DeVille
2017The work La Loge Harlem focuses on the history of Harlem and its development over the last 200 years...
Doreen Lynette Garner
2017Known But to God: The Dug Up, Dissected, and Disposed for the Sake of Medicine by Doreen Lynnette Garner is a small, suspended sculpture composed of glass, silicone, steel, epoxy putty, pearls, Swarovski crystals, and whiskey...
Beverly Buchanan
2017Made between 1986 and 2015, Buchanan’s Shack Sculptures are a result of the artist’s close observation and extensive research of ‘shotgun’ houses, where one room is arranged in sequence one behind the other; the rural poor inhabited these houses...
Farah Al Qasimi
2017Farah Al Qasimi’s approach to photography deviates from the norms and conventions of traditional figurative and portrait photography...
Sinzo Aanza
2017Projet d’attentat contre l’image? (Acte 3) by Sinzo Aanza brings together literature and objects in their varied forms...
Sadie Benning
2017In borrowing and subverting images from popular culture, Sadie Benning exposes the media’s role in constructing false and oppressive stereotypes of women, with regard to gender and sexual identity...
Martha Colburn
2017Martha Colburn’s film, Western Wild … or How I Found Wanderlust and Met Old Shatterhand , about the famed German author Karl May weaves together a mixture of stop motion animation, travelogue and biography that generates a kind of sensory wanderlust...
Bayrol Jiménez
2018Sombras de los Valles (Shadows of the Valleys) is part of a series of works created by Bayrol Jiménez in which he is influenced by hand-painted signs and large billboards in Mexico...
Cauleen Smith
2018Set to the iconic and spiritual music of Alice Coltrane’s Turiyasangitananda (1937–2007), Cauleen Smith’s film Sojourner travels across the US to visit a series of sites important to an alternative and creative narrative of black history...
John Lucas and Claudia Rankine
Drawing & Print
2018(Drawing & Print) Historically, blondeness has been a signifier for desirability and beauty, speaking to “purity” — the purity of whiteness — like no other bodily attribute except, perhaps, blue eyes...
Abraham Oghobase
2018This series of photographs is inspired by the artist’s travels to Jos, Nigeria...
Abraham Oghobase
2018This series of photographs is inspired by the artist’s travels to Jos, Nigeria...
Abraham Oghobase
2018This series of photographs is inspired by the artist’s travels to Jos, Nigeria...
Abraham Oghobase
2018This series of photographs is inspired by the artist’s travels to Jos, Nigeria...
Helina Metaferia
2019By Way of Revolution is a series of works by Helina Metaferia that addresses the inherited histories of protest that inform contemporary social movements...
American Artist
2019From suicides, to gang violence, to the epidemic abuse of force by police departments (predominantly against Black men), to school and mass shootings, there is perhaps no more urgent issue in the United States than gun control...
Xaviera Simmons
2019Xaviera Simmons often employs her own body and collected materials in the service of her photographs and performances...
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
2019The Lion’s Hunt by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy is a large format painting that recalls Delacroix’s paintings and tapestries from the 19th century, where the painterly surface became a garden invaded by wild beasts...
Elsa Werth
2019In the video Color Strip by Elsa Werth two-dimensional versions of all the national flags of the world (197 in all) are compiled into a long horizontal strip...
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2020-2029
Gisela McDaniel
2020Got Your Back by Gisela McDaniel depicts two women of color from different ethnic backgrounds who share similar violent experiences...
Paloma Contreras Lomas
Drawing & Print
2020(Drawing & Print) Paloma Contreras Lomas sometimes incorporates large scale drawing into her practice...
Wong Wai Yin
2021Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...
Wong Wai Yin
2021Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...
Wong Wai Yin
2021Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...
Wong Wai Yin
2021Drawn from the widely circulated images of protests around the world in support of women rights and racial equality, the phrase I can’t believe we are still protesting is both the title of Wong Wai Yin’s photographic series and a reference to similar messages seen on protest signages...
Yétúndé Olagbaju
2021Yétúndé Olagbaju’s On becoming a star series recuperates the figure of ‘Mammy’, a stereotype rooted in American slavery that typically depicts a larger, dark skinned woman as a maternal presence, often within a domestic setting, and typically taking care of white children...
American Artist
Drawing & Print
2022(Drawing & Print) American Artist is engaged in a multiyear research project that traces and teases various interconnections between the life and work of science fiction author Octavia E...
American Artist
Drawing & Print
2022(Drawing & Print) American Artist is engaged in a multiyear research project that traces and teases various interconnections between the life and work of science fiction author Octavia E...
American Artist
Drawing & Print
2022(Drawing & Print) American Artist is engaged in a multiyear research project that traces and teases various interconnections between the life and work of science fiction author Octavia E...
Tessa Mars
2022In this untitled acrylic painting, Tessa Mars explores the long-lasting effects of colonialism on the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, particularly in terms of female vulnerability and resilience...
Helina Metaferia
2023By Way of Revolution is a series of works by Helina Metaferia that addresses the inherited histories of protest that inform contemporary social movements...
Helina Metaferia
2023By Way of Revolution is a series that addresses the inherited histories of protest that inform contemporary social movements...
