#intersectional art

2020

We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 is organized by Catherine Morris, Sackler Family Senior Curator for the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and Rujeko Hockley, former Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum.

"My work is the visualization of blackness and womanhood with an emphasis on the politics of hair...Through past memories and personal observations, I use photography to examine how the racialized notion of beauty shape self-perception from a black feminist context."

"Pinched using a vast amount of spiky pins, intimate women’s garments and several pairs of shoes are transformed to look like luxury items in polish artist, Erwina Ziomkowska‘s ‘wardrobe’ collection. The radical surface treatment causes the objects to change from their original forms, which from afar gives a different impression from what’s really going on underneath. One only has to come closer to see that the luxurious look is only an illusion – that the internal part of the material is covered with a shiny armor of spines. The nature of this perversion is based on contrasting and extreme possibilities of interpretation, drifting between victim and pleasure, feminism and spirituality."

 I moved to the outskirts of the Gold Coast district of Chicago, one of the most affluent neighborhoods in the country. Friends are surprised to find out where I live and are often intrigued, wondering how I can afford it and what it’s like for me socially. The nature of gentrification is complex for me, as I am on the line between several groups socially, economically and culturally, and the now-demolished Cabrini Green Projects were close to my home. Instead of moving to a working class or “up-and-coming” neighborhood, I specifically chose to move to an area that will affect me more than I can affect it. Or can the reverse ever happen?

Sons of Rest is an ongoing series that documents the Black, Queer community of Saint Louis, Missouri.  Named for a pavilion in South Saint Louis' Tower Grove Park, the series began in 2010 as coverage of Saint Louis' annual pride celebration. Situated on the edge of the park, the Sons of Rest Pavilion was the unofficial gathering place of Black, Queer pride attendees before the festival was moved to downtown Saint Louis in 2013.  During this continued documentation of the community, an awareness of the underlying significance emerged as I noticed the rapid disappearance of Black, Queer safe spaces.