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06/06/2018 15)17 Refraction: New Photography of Africa and its Diaspora - Surface Design Association Surface Design Association Page 1 sur 12 https://www.surfacedesign.org/refraction-new-photography-of-africa-and-its-diaspora/ Refraction: New Photography of Africa and Diaspora LAUREN SINNER / MAY 28, 2018 Refraction is an ocular cleanse. The works in Refraction: New Photography of Africa and its D gap between Black stereotypes and Black reality. Curated by Cassandra Johnson (Steven K (http://www.stevenkasher.com) Director) and Niama Safia Sandy (Independent Curator a Anthropologist) the exhibition presents a generation of photographic artists of African descen Black bodies in acts of cultural mediation. While not a technically “textile” show, many of the features fabrics, patterns, and motifs that can connect fibers and photography. The exhibitio works by Surface Design Journal’s Spring 2018 cover artist Basil Kincaid (https://www.basi

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    Refraction: New Photography of Africa and itsDiasporaLAUREN SINNER / MAY 28, 2018

    Refraction is an ocular cleanse. The works in Refraction: New Photography of Africa and its Diaspora

    gap between Black stereotypes and Black reality. Curated by Cassandra Johnson (Steven Kasher Gallery

    (http://www.stevenkasher.com) Director) and Niama Safia Sandy (Independent Curator and Cultural

    Anthropologist) the exhibition presents a generation of photographic artists of African descent who portray

    Black bodies in acts of cultural mediation. While not a technically “textile” show, many of the works on display

    features fabrics, patterns, and motifs that can connect fibers and photography. The exhibition also features

    works by Surface Design Journal’s Spring 2018 cover artist Basil Kincaid (https://www.basilkincaid.com)

    http://www.stevenkasher.com/https://www.basilkincaid.com/

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    Basil Kincaid Exaltation 2017, archival print on metal, 24″ x 36″.

    The photographs in the exhibition navigate the complex relationship between innate identities and identities

    evolved from social, political, and cultural influences. On a technical level, these artists are heralds of new

    dimensions in photography, bending, transmuting, and pushing the medium. They revive the traditional

    African rites of masking, costuming, quilting, body ornamentation, and invocation of spirits.

    Many works utilize contemporary art practices such as performative self portraiture, collage, montage and

    digital manipulation. They merge cultures past and present, looking towards a more inclusive, harmonious

    future.

    On one hand, there are the documentary styles of Girma Berta (https://www.instagram.com/gboxcreative/)

    and Eyerusalem Adugna Jirenga (https://addisfineart.com/artists/56-eyerusalem-jirenga/biography/)

    both under 30, who provide contemporary outlooks on the urban African environment.

    https://www.instagram.com/gboxcreative/https://addisfineart.com/artists/56-eyerusalem-jirenga/biography/

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    Girma Berta Moving Shadows II, XII, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2017, archival pigment

    print, 35.5″ x 35.5″.

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    Eyerusalem Adugna Jirenga The City of Saints VII 2017, archival pigment print, 31.5″

    x 31.5″.

    Hakeem Adewumi (https://www.hadewumi.com), Emilie Regnier (http://www.emilieregnier.com)

    Zarita Zevallos (http://infi-nerdy.com) make portraits that examine cross-cultural signifiers with a charged

    cinematic beauty.

    https://www.hadewumi.com/http://www.emilieregnier.com/http://infi-nerdy.com/

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    Hakeem Adewumi The Tragic Moor II 2017, archival pigment print,

    18″ x 12″.

    Shawn Theodore (https://www.shawntheodo.re) and Stan Squirewell (http://www.stansquirewell.com)

    employ digital and analog photomontage techniques drawing on personal experiences and family history to

    examine the fluctuating understanding of the self.

    https://www.shawntheodo.re/http://www.stansquirewell.com/

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    Stan Squirewell Afrosaxon III 2018, mixed media collage, 30″ x

    25″.

    Basil Kincaid (https://www.basilkincaid.com) and Keyezua (http://keyezuavision.tumblr.com)

    performative scenarios with hand cra!ed quilts, masks, and costumes to act out empowering contemporary

    rituals.

    https://www.basilkincaid.com/http://keyezuavision.tumblr.com/

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    Basil Kincaid Awaiting Instruction 2017, archival metal prints, 24″ x 24″.

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    Keyezua Fortia (1) 2017, giclée print on Hanhemühle

    paper, 35.5″ x 23.75″.

    Adama Delphine Fawundu (https://www.delphinefawundu.com) and Ivan Forde

    (https://iforde.carbonmade.com) create elaborate, dreamlike compositions using sewn collage and

    cyanotype, creating modern representations of spiritual icons and ancient myths like Mami Wata and the Epic

    of Gilgamesh.

    https://www.delphinefawundu.com/https://iforde.carbonmade.com/

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    Adama Delphine Fawundu Passageways #1: Secrets,

    Traditions, Spoken and Unspoken Truths or Not 2017, archival

    pigment print, 45″ x 34″.

    These images act as flares in our cultural consciousness. They confront and expose existing narratives as social

    constructs that will never be more than approximations of a more complex reality. As Sarah Lewis

    many movements began when an aesthetic encounter indelibly changed our past perceptions of the world?

    The imagination inspired by aesthetic encounters can get us to the point of benevolent surrender, making way

    for a new version of our collective selves.”

    Important Info:On display until June 2nd, 2018

    Steven Kasher Gallery is located at 515 W. 26th St., New York, NY 10001

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    http://www.stevenkasher.com (http://www.stevenkasher.com)

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