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BlackFlash Magazine Posts
Through 3D-rendered black and white images, Moni Omubor creates a fictional museum where Yoruba artifacts exist beyond colonial possession. This artist project, titled “The Backroom” employs speculative fiction and Afro-Surrealism to interrogate Western museum practices and imagine new possibilities.
In conversation with Lodoe Laura, artist Annie Macdonell discusses her recent exhibition “The Beyond Within,” which delves into the history of psychedelic therapy. She explores her collaborative films with Maïder Fortuné and the historical ripples that help us read our fractured moment, sustaining an uncynical belief in art even as its institutions falter.
Yaniya Lee advocates for a critical approach grounded in material practice. Drawing on her recent work with textile artists in Edmonton, Lee makes a case for criticism that attends to how black artists work, focusing on their materials, methods, and processes, while calling for more diverse voices to engage with these practices.
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From BlackFlash Expanded
As part of Expanded’s ‘How to Guide’ Series, artist and writer Roewan Crowe shares an excerpt from Violet’s Impossible Garden, a queer sequel to the gritty, poetic western, Quivering Land (ARP).
From the archives
When I’m drawing, I find myself on the floor in my bedroom with paper and chalk; at my desk with pens and permanent markers; using my finger as a stylus on my phone’s touch screen. To be close to the body is to be urgent.