“How can we look at these images without being voyeuristic or pornographic or exploitative about it? How can artists legitimately use those images and mobilize them to political or social ends?,' Massimiliano Gioni asks, discussing the new exhibit.
,” an exhibition centered on the themes of Black grief and white grievance, at the New Museum in New York City.But Enwezor’s exhibition, which is on view through June 6, reaches beyond this point to feature more than three dozen contemporary Black American artists who represent the concepts “of mourning, commemoration, and loss as a direct response to the national emergency of black grief,” he imagined.In March 2019, Enwezor, 55,Okwui Enwezor.
But there was also the challenge of curating a show about Black grief without characterizing it as the fundamental condition of Black life in America. The result is an exhibition that features depictions of Black grief alongside Black joy and other aspects of Black life.Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death
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