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In Cooking with the Uses of the Erotic, Ilana Harris-Babou uses Audre Lourde’s seminal essay as a point of departure for an imaginary cooking show. With the help of her family she creates vignettes that are part painting, part appetizing, and part alchemical. The artist frames visceral, messy, scenes with studio lighting and HD video in order to ask questions about intimacy, violence, and consumption. The original work is displayed in two-channels on a monitor display.

Salome Asega, on the line, 2012 

Tamara Dominguez

Alek Wek, Jean-Paul Gaultier Fall/Winter Haute Couture 2000

i wish to melt (ice blue), Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, 2009

Peter Brooke-Ball

(via Whistle and flute | The Sunday Painter)

rob pruitt

tiger’s touch (flickr)

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Hannah Black, My Bodies, 2014.

Doreen is a genius. Read all of her work.

Just as Rihanna’s eponymous girlness-as-image brushes against but never touches affective white girlishness, she functions just outside of the womanish labor so often determining blackness. Her girlness shapes her relationship to cash. Black girls, we get that the necessity of survival casts a pallor on #BBHMM’s gruff staccato delivery, but we are relieved that she never rightly mentions the labor. This is our treasured kind of liberation, concurrent with the struggle critics and listeners alike have strangely wholly ascribed to Kendrick’s mode of self-reflexivity.”

Nicole Wermers at Herald St

Photography: Lina Viktor

Lorna Simpson, Guarded Conditions, 1989.