Contemporary art at the intersection of race and culture addressing Blackness and loss
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The Black Index
The artists featured in "The Black Index" – Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell and Lava Thomas – build upon the tradition of Black self-representation as an antidote to colonialist images. Their translations of photography challenge the medium’s long-assumed qualities of objectivity, legibility and identification.
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Using drawing, sculpture and digital technology to transform the recorded image, these artists question our reliance on photography as a privileged source for documentary objectivity and historical understanding. The works featured here offer an alternative practice – a Black index. In the hands of these six artists, the index still serves as a finding aid for information about Black subjects, but it also challenges viewers’ desire for classification and, instead, redirects them toward alternative information.
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The artists turn away from narratives of containment, in search of what the archives fail to remember.
Hyperallergic
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Contributions by B. R. Cooks, CJ. Smiley, S. Watson Artist entries by Re’al Christian and Ella Turenne
128 pages, 95 colour illustrations20 × 25 cm, hardcover
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3596-1
Events
Palo Alto
| Palo Alto, Art Center
Keywords
Black Lives Matter, Black, BLM, PoC, Black Art
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