Sentences with phrase «represent blackness»

«I think of blackness as unquantifiable and ever expanding, and each of these artists have their own unique understanding and relationship to blackness and represent blackness in a variety of ways.»

The films of Kevin Jerome Everson, also speaking through light and shadow to represent blackness in the American experience, possess a keen ability to show rather than tell.

That story is a complicated one, woven from the threads of debates about how to represent blackness, social struggle and change, and global migrations and diasporas.

That story is a complicated one, woven from the threads of debates about how to represent blackness; social struggle and change; and migrations and diasporas, particularly in relation to Africa, a recent area of expansion for the collection.

Can such artists represent blackness?

Not exact matches

While Wakanda represents a fulfillment of that longing, Killmonger's royal bloodline remains at odds with his American Blackness.

But rather than violence and abandonment, he's offered the promise of Wakanda — what the fictional fantasy of Wakanda represents, and, by proxy, what America ought to represent at its best: hope, innovation, opportunity, aspiration for Black youth upon seeing Blackness excel.

The black console with its blue logo are meant to represent the Earth surrounded by the inky blackness of space.

Hammons evokes thephysicality and cultural positioning of Mike Tyson, Michael Jackson, and Michael Jordan with humor and word play: three black men who represent dramatically different illustrations of blackness.

Her work focuses on the interaction between technology and black identity and questions how blackness is represented through modern technology.

CULTURE TYPE: The title of the exhibition Blackness in Abstraction naturally conjures the concept of black identity and representing it in abstraction, but that is not necessarily what you are trying to do.

Instead of representing absence or void, life springs forth from blackness, and the nuanced, intense dark tones take on the uncanny richness and depth of precious metal.

The faint grey of Dawn, the pale lilac of Daylight and the impenetrable blackness of Dark each represent a specific time of day, signifying an interest on the part of the artist to not only cast space, but to capture time.

Hammons evokes the physicality and cultural positioning of Mike Tyson, Michael Jackson, and Michael Jordan with humor and word play: three black men who represent dramatically different illustrations of blackness.