The collective works in the show convey the capacity of photography and photo-ish objects to commune with the departed, to transport to the past/future and unknown, and to enliven silences and make noise.
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Prof. Iris Rampling, Director of the academic center and my boss, was on her way home, monochrome in head-to-toe black, bag over her shoulder, perfectly straightened bob of white hair fluttering. She asked me with the efficiency of a woman who is late for her evening gin and tonic if I was uncomfortable by Anthony's attention.
Printmaker Katrina Andry Reimagines a Slave Revolt’s Past, Present, and Future as an Inferno of Simultaneity
In this scene and the others in the solo exhibition Afro-what-if-ism: Reimagining One Night in 1811 at Ibis Contemporary Gallery, Andry reconsiders antebellum narratives of the past, temporally remixing present and potential future scenes of liberation and leisure.
There Was Never a Beginning or End in the First Place
A sense that something has existed before and that it will continue to exist hereafter — a sense that I will exist forever. These were the emotions that Candy Koh’s works evoked within me when I encountered them for the first time.
