We had the pleasure of sitting down with @housingny back in June when the project began. Check out the upcoming exhibition opening next weekend. Repost from @housingny • Desire “N” Flux How does the libidinal economy of Black people and their bodies shape the ways in which they are beloved and repelled, adored and abused? How often is it that these are two sides of the same coin? Whose fantasies become reality and who bears the impact of other’s imaginations? When bodies are invisible the marks of love and violence are surrounding and entangled with the mundane and the ritual. Each artist engages with desire as a constant condition in which one must navigate. Alvin Baltrop is an underground Donatello navigating a pre-AIDS crisis world of homo eroticism. Brontez encounters this world in the present, in the digital, in rhetorics unveiled as they’re encountered. Allana’s sculptures feel like corpses of Black femme assimilation in capitalism, and Calli’s work functions as similar but as referential artifacts. The show will be open from December 17th to January 24th of 2021. - # #thejuneteenthproject #blackartmatters #blackartistaffirmed #reclaimblackexistence #reframeblacknarratives #affirmblacklife #blacklivesmatter #humanizeblacklives https://www.instagram.com/p/CIwfpDzl2vC/?igshid=79xwkg2vvg1g
