#dusha

[madcat-world]

Dusha - Jelena Kevic Djurdjevic

[brooklynmuseum]

 👋 St. Louis! Liz Johnson Artur: Dusha opens today at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and will be on view until April 19. 

Dusha, the Russian word for soul, showcases the Russian Ghanian artist’s intimate pictures, videos, and sketchbooks compiled over more than 30 years. The artist’s images capture the beauty and unique stories of people of the African diaspora from her travels across North America, Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean.

If you have a friend in St. Louis who you think will enjoy this show, share this with them and tell them to check it out!

Liz Johnson Artur (born Bulgaria, 1964). Black Balloon Archive, 1992–ongoing. Chromogenic photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © LizJohnson Artur

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Collage experiment © Ellen Enderle

[brooklynmuseum]

Explore what @vogue called "the connective tissue that binds the African diaspora with tender intimacy" through Liz Johnson Artur's Black Balloon Archive. Now in its final week, see artist's photographs in Liz Johnson Artur: Dusha, through August 18.

Liz Johnson Artur (born Bulgaria, 1964). Untitled, 1996–2012. Chromogenic photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Liz Johnson Artur

[brooklynmuseum]

For Liz Johnson Artur’s first solo museum exhibition, she chose the title "Dusha," which means "soul" in Russian. As the artist recently explained, "it has no shape, no color, no gender. My interest is far beyond those limitations."

Liz Johnson Artur (born Bulgaria, 1964). Untitled (PDA), 2018. Chromogenic photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Liz Johnson Artur

[brooklynmuseum]

⁠“What I call sketches are the life line in my archive,”⁠ says Liz Johnson Artur. “Without them, I would have⁠ drowned a long time ago.” Johnson Artur fills these books⁠ with photographs, drawings, and thoughts that⁠ demonstrate her own logic. 

See them on view in Dusha through August 18th.⁠⁠

Liz Johnson Artur (born Bulgaria, 1964). Book for Thought, 2018. Vintage papers and mixed media. Courtesy of the artist. © Liz Johnson Artur⁠

[brooklynmuseum]

Central to Liz Johnson Artur’s practice is her engagement with people, meeting and “seeing them as individual stories.” The artist calls the body of work she has been accumulating over the past thirty years her Black Balloon Archive—a trove of stories, people, and encounters that she has captured around London and during her travels since 1991.

Liz Johnson Artur (born Bulgaria, 1964). Black Balloon Archive, 1992–ongoing. Chromogenic photographs. Courtesy of the artist. © Liz Johnson Artur

[brooklynmuseum]

On view in Liz Johnson Artur: Dusha are a copious selection of the artist's notebooks, filled with photographs and sketches, that highlight the ways in which she has organized and conceptualized her Archive since the early 1990s. ⁠⁠

Liz Johnson Artur (born Bulgaria, 1964). Book for Thought, 2018. Vintage papers and mixed media. Courtesy of the artist. © Liz Johnson Artur⁠