Interpreting Site

Gestures of Refusal:
Black Photography and Visual Culture

Gestures of Refusal: Black Photography and Visual Culture is the third installment in the Seeing Black1 series curated by Shana M. griffin. Currently on view at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, Gestures is vast and disarming. Before going, I wondered what it would look like: refusing / reiterating / recognizing a way of recounting (all) the ways that we appear to one another—as artists, as humans—swept up in the throes of Blackness. Recognizing. Reiterating. Refusing.

Type:
Reviews
Source:
Summer 2024
Location:
New Orleans, LA
Credit:
Text / Sherae Rimpsey

Afterlife Geographies | The Past & Other Dreams

In so far as the afterlife is accessed through the imagination, the afterlife situates what a future world might entail, and rearranges the pieces of the world, as we knew it, into a vision of the future. Afterlife Geographies considers sacred sites, sites of restoration, sites of reclamation, and sites of liberation.

Type:
Projects
Source:
Summer 2024
Credit:
Project / Kamau Amu Patton