With and against photography: Voice as love practice
这篇以照片为中心的论文基于与三位艺术家的持续对话,探讨摄影语言的反黑人历史及当代艺术市场的种族排斥性,提出将摄影从殖民与种族化媒介解放为爱的实践,重新分配种族资本主义中的权力关系。
This photo-centered essay is based on an ongoing conversation with three other artists and a continuous engagement with their work. It addresses the challenges posed by the anti-Black nature of the history of photographic language and by the exclusionary nature of the contemporary art market as a highly racialized institutional arrangement. Driven by a Black Feminist practice of love my artistic work brought me to question and to seek to unsettle the politics of portraiture, expression, hegemonies, and anti-Blackness. This essay builds on collective reflections on how photographic artistic expression can be liberated from an historically colonial and racialized medium and become a love practice that incessantly redistributes power relations within racial capitalism.