“Sheikh’s work reappropriates the aerial photograph by orienting his series spatially and cartographically. His photographs contribute to a four-dimensional understanding of the land and the struggle it holds by both situating his works temporally and documenting history as it is made visible on the land itself.”
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“Making art, reflecting, means caring more than is normally necessary while also ignoring more than is normally necessary. It means parsing through the constant arrival and disappearance of images and information, often without warning or context. It means we must decide to be calloused or catalysed.”
Purdah is a term that encapsulates the concept and practice of veiling and voluntary seclusion from society. The word “Purdah,” derived from Farsi, can also have the literal meaning of “curtains.” “Purdah: Veiled Realities” is a multimedia project that explores this concept through a personal journey, inspired by the rich cultural and feminist lineage of my Islamic heritage, where women in my ancestry have voluntarily embraced various forms of Purdah, such as the hijab, Balochi chadar, niqab, and burqa…
“I think these are the reasons this form of making is so interesting to me. It’s a connection to a rich canon of cultural production and a conversation with history. […] I’m never exactly sure where the work will take me, at least conceptually. I am more concerned with the process(es) and ultimately the rhythm of the work.”
“Her breadth of temporality, technique and geography allow her work to be rendered as capacious and palpable to many, yet deeply distinct and tethered to particular places and times. In Clark’s visual grammar, the metaphoric and literal are quilted, and quotidian material is alchemized into perfect memory of the personal historical.”
“DO I INTIMIDATE?” started as an anthropology research question for my university classes. In a series of ten interviews, I asked elders and youths in my Yoruba Community how it felt to wear their traditional attire in public.
“With a focus on the everyday lives of Black queer kin, “Audacity” plays with embodiments of masculinity and femininity within recognizable gestures and expressions of Black queerness.”
“Glawson’s disregard is serious, intentional, lightly handled, and astutely queer.”
Time, depending on who you are, where you are, and when you are, can mean many different things. Time is a unit of measure. Time is an experience. Time is saved. Time is spent. Time is wasted. Time is money. Time flies. Or it drags on. Time is a construct, a concept, a currency. Time is attention. Time is value. And for some, time is a medium.
Meganelizabeth Diamond moves us through her process for constructing images across a series of recent work.
Angeline Simon walks us through her practice in this reflection across time, research, and experimentation.