Sentences with phrase «positions black identity»

And in doing so, it positions Black identity as central to a broad, cosmopolitan humanism.»

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Lorraine O'Grady Crossing disciplines including performance, criticism, photography and video, Lorraine O'Grady's meditations on Black identity and women's representation have positioned her as a fore - bearer of conceptual and activist practice.

For the most part, the exhibition at Grey Art Gallery frames Blackness according to the oppositional politics of identity, establishing a fixed position from which to argue for the significance of black performance art but falling short of a truthful representation of the black experience.

Through this project — positioned on billboards in Toronto and eight major cities across Canada — the artist critiques the lacuna of black women from visual culture while asserting their empowered presence and identity in the very spaces from which they have been historically excluded.