Sentences with phrase «queer black identity»
ohn Trengove's South African coming - of - age drama, The Wound is a visceral and powerfully done film about queer Black identity and its intersections with Ukwaluka, the rite of passage for male Xhosa teens — a rural tribe in the country.
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However, because of my involvement with public art projects and queer identity in early, 90s, I decided to return to paintings with work that looked at the social ideas about the origins of one's sexual identity, often with black humor, of course.
Curated by Nicole J. Caruth, the exhibition focuses on «contemporary artists who Grace Jones has influenced and inspired, and artists who address black bodies and queer identity in ways that recall aspects of Jones» oeuvre,» she said in an interview with Crave.
By setting intimate moments alongside landmark events (such as the Black Popular Culture Conference in 1991, the truce between the Crips and the Bloods in 1992, the Black Male exhibition at the Whitney in 1994, and the Black Nations / Queer Nations Conference in 1995), the archive constructs collective and private narratives to comment on identity, desire, sexuality, and loss.
His powerful figurative paintings highlight the daily lives of black queer men and the difficulties faced by defining one's identity as such in contemporary society.
Her work often explores important topics such as contemporary black identity, queer theory, and the power of human language, seen through video, performance, writing and other new media.
Importantly, the installation lends visibility and nuance to the black queer experience, especially during those fraught years marked by identity politics, broken - windows policing and AIDS activism.
Subject of Escape Route, a solo exhibition at Bronx Museum of the Arts, Jeffery Spencer Hargrave (presented by Ethan Cohen New York, New York) filters art history through Black history and queer identity, manifesting a refreshing directness and witty honesty throughout.
Abdi Osman Abdi Osman is a Toronto - based Somali - Canadian multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on questions of black masculinity as it intersects with Muslim and queer identities.
Also exhibited in Stout and Herron's «Black Mirror, Pink Reflections: Portraits of Queer Identity in Contemporary Art» is John Hanning's I Survived AIDS, a sculpture made of 500 stacked c - print posters, reminiscent of Felix Gonzalez - Torres's stacked prints (that unlike Hanning's, are free to take.)
Obsessed with how America consumes black and gay culture Muse interrogates how she contributes to this further commodification of black and queer identities.
Known for his collages and videos that offer commentary through the lenses of black and queer sub-cultures, Rashaad Newsome utilizes his artwork as a means to explore the concept of identity in numerous permutations.
Acosta's intersectional identities — as transgender, queer and black Dominican — have continuously inspired his community based work.
I'm interested in interjecting the portraiture canon with brown and black bodies to further complicate heteronormative perception of male identity, the male to male gaze, and the intersectionality of gender fluid and queer bodies that are not often discussed or represented in history, and marginalized in our society.»
Some artists pay direct tribute to Jones while others demonstrate a Jones - like sensibility in their engagement with the black body and queer identity.
Nelson's work looks at overlapping concepts of perceived identity and the emotional memories of what it means to be a queer black man.
In addition to a new essay, illustrated chronology, and a roundtable discussion, Mark and our curatorial team selected to reprint seminal texts on the of topics of race and gender identity, foster youth, Black American stand - up comedy, and queer and feminist politics during the developing AIDS crisis.