MUSÉE 29 – EVOLUTION
Evolution explores the concepts of progress, transformation, growth, and advancement in an age when images are taking a dramatic shift in the role they play in our lives.
All tagged black history month
In celebration of Black History Month, Musée is exploring the work of emerging black photographers. The work of Nigerian, self-taught photographer Adeolu Osibodu creates spectacular surrealist images that synthesise dreams and reality.
While being loved and showing love are acts that are always assumed to be natural, Alanna Fields is uncovering the truth behind the concealed and disregarded love shared between queer black individuals from the 1960s and 70s through her art.
Billboards are a debased medium. High-altitude and low-concept, they line our highways like classical colonnades, only they’re trying to sell you something. Who even uses them anymore? Personal injury attorneys desperate for new clients; the nearest Cracker Barrel franchise; brands that you’re surprised to discover still exist; brands that remind you of their existence on a daily basis; religious groups preaching news of the resurrection—perhaps with a number to call, with any questions.
Trauma through separation (dismemberment) is a prevalent topic within the discussion of African diaspora in America, and for good reason. Naomieh Jovin incorporates her own family albums to illustrate intergenerational trauma and resistance, focusing on how these traumas are carried through the past and the physical body. Her work has been featured in Aperture, LensCulture Critics’ Award, 2021, the 2021 Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and more.
Jermaine Francis is a documentary portrait photographer, exploring and understanding the world around him through his imagery.
Xavier Scott Marshall is a young, up-and-coming Trinidadian-American artist with a focus on identity, interpersonal relationships, and self-expression.
Melissa Alcena is a Bahamian photographer using her platform to amplify and share black Bahamian voices and stories.
Utilizing vivid colors in what appears to be the realm of dreams, Kriss Munsya’s project “The Eraser” contemplates guilt, community and the memories that define us.
Maintaining cool in the midst of blatant racism was imperative for survival. The response to incessant vitriol, degradation, brutality, and imprisonment was to maintain a level of “unbotheredness”, a detachment from any sort of care about being on the margins of society. Hence, the origins of the Black aesthetic of cool is intrinsically linked to African-Americans difficulty, and sometimes inability, to navigate freely in American society.
