As with many politically engaged artists whose practices take on complex issues of ethnicity, social justice, and
gendered cultural agency, Maiolino deconstructs oppressive hierarchies not only on an institutional scale, but in terms of their everyday manifestations in the daily experiences of the disenfranchised.
At a moment when individuals of all races are questioning sex and
gender - based binaries, Newsome's videos offer a timely examination of
cultural power and
agency within the context of
gender, sexuality, and race.