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“‘In Haiti, people never really die,’ my aunts and grandmothers said when I was a child, which seemed strange, because in Haiti people were always dying. […] But what I didn’t fully understand was that in Haiti people’s spirits never really die.”
— Edwidge Danticat in Create Dangerously
Portia Zvavahera (Zimbabwean, 1985), Zvandiswededza (It Has Drawn Me Closer), 2017. Oil-based printing ink and oil bar on canvas, 173 x 168.3 cm.
Ablade Glover (Ghanaian, 1934), African Market, 1989. Oil on canvas, 77 x 77 cm.
“I’m sorry you were not truly loved and that it made you cruel.”
— Warsan Shire
Afroeucentric Face On
This year London-based plastic surgeon Dr Julian De Silva developed a scientific facial mapping technology evaluating Amber Heard, Kim Kardashian and other caucasian women as the women with the most beautiful face in the world.
In a world with mixed humans, using methods that were made to whitewash beauty standards and make women of color feel less attractive means that we are mentally colonizing ourselves and letting writers, specialists and scientists continue to carry the worth of our existence by letting them write articles that our children read to reshape their mind into the mind of a contemporary slave of eurocentric beauty standards.
With this body of work I first portray the face of one of the women with the most beautiful face and I slowly vandalize the face by changing its feature into AFROEUCENTRIC destroying what is considered perfect to exhibit beautiful black features. Women portrayed in this body of work are aware of their beauty and they want to expose it by destroying the mask that the world continues to shape, a mask that gives women the illusion that when you don’t have an eurocentric feature, you are not beautiful. Women, If we don´t manifest resistance our pure existence as black, beautiful women will disappear. ——————————————————————————–Full text The western media has an ambiguous influence in Africa. African television, magazines and the fashion industry seems to follow eurocentrism without questioning what we became after our independency and how our blackness is being televised. The influence is noticeable in the choices our African women have with beauty standards. Although we have managed to create a natural hair revolution, we still have to cope with aggressive propaganda non caucasian women face daily from newspapers to magazines to remind us that when it’s not Eurocentric it’s not considered beautiful. Today with the use of internet even without following mediocre news pages of your interest on Facebook or Twitter the wind blows into your direction, you are confronted with studies that want to reshape your ideals about your own definition of beauty. The articles and advertisement contain images that are a loud bully to those that don’t have the Eurocentric features, these blatant articles contribute to the racial challenges we are facing today. As a woman of color I grew up not knowing how to react to the fact that my features were not considered beautiful. It was also noticeable that in our society, we have black children and asian children that somehow lost the battle and opt to make groups when their features would in a small way meet the eurocentric beauty standards that are taking us back to colonialism and segregation. Praising fair skin, a small nose bridge, straight hair and colored eyes. When I studied, big lips and a wide nose bridge was considered less attractive to white schoolmates. Uneducated black children with similar features would remind you that you were too African to be part of the group because they somehow had one feature that made them part of the beauty circus created centuries ago to divide black people and make them unstable and weak as a group. A strong education could have saved these children but growing up in a western country, white oriented schools have history books that are not an education weapon to shape children to believe that you are beautiful no matter your color or features. The manifestation of beauty lays deeper than your facial features, individually or with the guidance of our parents children can be introduced to books that explain this aggression in magazines and television. It´s abusive and as a child anything that you receive can easily shape your mind and change your thoughts for life. This year London-based plastic surgeon Dr Julian De Silva developed a scientific facial mapping technology evaluating Amber Heard, Kim Kardashian and other caucasian women as the women with the most beautiful face in the world. In a world with mixed humans, using methods that were made to whitewash beauty standards and make women of color feel less attractive means that we are mentally colonizing ourselves and letting writers, specialists and scientists continue to carry the worth of our existence by letting them write articles that our children read to reshape their mind into the mind of a contemporary slave of eurocentric beauty standards. With this body of work I first portray the face of one of the women with the most beautiful face and I slowly vandalize the face by changing its feature into AFROEUCENTRIC destroying what is considered perfect to exhibit beautiful black features. Women portrayed in this body of work are aware of their beauty and they want to expose it by destroying the mask that the world continues to shape, a mask that gives women the illusion that when you don’t have an eurocentric feature, you are not beautiful. Women, If we don´t manifest resistance our pure existence as a black, beautiful women will disappear. Thank you for reading, share your experiences with me. E: [email protected]
In my head I had named him Ayo. Beautiful with a thick black skin. Palms made of dark strokes I could read. I didn’t care about these flying rumours, about Saturday marriages without the other wife, about Sunday Owambes, about Yoruba demons.
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Wooden bwoom helmet-mask of the Kuba people, present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo. Artist unknown; 19th century. Now in the Musée du quai Branly, Paris. Photo credit: Siren-Com/Wikimedia Commons.
HBO Announces Documentary Lineup for the Second Half of 2018
HBO Announces Documentary Lineup for the Second Half of 2018
HBO has confirmed a fresh array of thought- provoking documentaries for the second half of 2018, including: Susan Lacy’s JANE FONDA IN FIVE ACTS, the intimate story of an icon; Nathaniel Kahn’s THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING, an insider’s look at today’s money-driven art world; Kate Davis and David Heilbroner’s SAY HER NAME: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SANDRA BLAND about the tragic death of a young woman…
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Abstract Truths: A Studio Visit with Contemporary Artist Gregory Coates
Abstract Truths: A Studio Visit with Contemporary Artist Gregory Coates
“My work is about a search for truth, who I am, and why I do what I do.” – Gregory Coates
Despite gaining recognition as an abstract expressionist for his bold sculptures, installations, and assemblages, Gregory Coates primarily defines himself as a painter. Coates exploratory studio practice and compositional experiments with found objects have established him as a prolific artist with a…
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Karen Village, Home of CNN’s Ocean Sole welcomes Art Noise Kenyan Residents
Karen Village, Home of CNN’s Ocean Sole welcomes Art Noise Kenyan Residents
Karen Village, home of CNN Africa’s Ocean sole welcomes Art Noise Nigeria to ensure that its art residents experience a complete and authentic Kenyan & African Art, Culture and Heritage experience similar to one it has given to CNN’s Ocean’s Sole. In 2017, CNN brought into media focus a Kenyan Artist collective which was putting its creativity into use and tackling a serious an environmental…
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What Will it Take for the Gun Violence to End? Vision Films Presents the Incredibly Powerful and Socially Relevant Film, JASON’S LETTER Available on DVD/VOD on August 1
What Will it Take for the Gun Violence to End? Vision Films Presents the Incredibly Powerful and Socially Relevant Film, JASON’S LETTER Available on DVD/VOD on August 1
Vision Films and Diamond Mind Media Group are proud to present the provocative new drama, Jason’s Letter. At a time when gun control is a highly controversial and much talked about topic in the United States, the must-see film, written and directed by Terrance Tykeem is sure to provoke conversation regarding what it takes for a much needed change to take place. Jason’s Letter is a timely reminder…
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Opportunity: Proposals for Art Jameel Commissions: Arts Writing and Research
Opportunity: Proposals for Art Jameel Commissions: Arts Writing and Research
Art Jameel, an independent organisation that supports arts, education and heritage in the Middle East, today announces an open call for proposals to Art Jameel Commissions: Arts Writing and Research. Art Jameel invites applications from writers, critics, art historians, curators and artists whose primary medium is writing, with a mandate to support the development of innovative research and the…
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...Only a Fool looks at the Finger: On the 10th Berlin Biennale by Adam Patterson
…Only a Fool looks at the Finger: On the 10th Berlin Biennale by Adam Patterson
Above: We’ve Got The Whole World In Our Hands, Collage by Isaiah Lopez, 2018.
We see here the most subtle and perhaps the most profound trace of an extended engagement between two separate and distinct yet profoundly—even inextricably—related orders of meaning dependent precisely as much for their confrontation on relations of identity, manifested in the signifier, as on their relations of…
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Pageants of Grief (III): Finding God Elsewhere with serpentwithfeet by Adam Patterson
Pageants of Grief (III): Finding God Elsewhere with serpentwithfeet by Adam Patterson
Above: serpentwithfeet, “soil,” album cover art, 2018.
This essay is the third chapter of the series, “Pageants of Grief: Handling Loss in the works of Donald Glover, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko & serpentwithfeet.”
Calling God “Sir,” was not patriarchal, but it was a way of slapping the enslaver in the face and saying, “You’re not my Sir, you’re not my master.” So, at the heart of it was a very…
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Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby
Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby
Above: Devan Shimoyama, Tasha, 2018, Courtesy of the artist.
The Andy Warhol Museum announces Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby, opening October 13, 2018. Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Babywill mark the first museum solo exhibition of Devan Shimoyama, Philadelphia-born painter, and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Spanning his burgeoning career, this exhibition includes painting, photography and…
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