The University Art Gallery currently features large portraits of LGBTI South Africans. Zanele Muholi's Faces and Phases is beautiful and moving. No matter where I stood, or where I sat, or where I walked, I felt eyes holding me in their gaze, those eyes showing pride and sadness and deep dignity and pain and truth. For a bit, I sat to leaf through her book of more than 250 portraits taken over a period of eight years, a creative endeavor of skill and love.
I came home, wanting to know more, and found much, including this.
At a time of extreme "othering" and hate, I honor survivors and those like this "visual activist" who remind us of our common humanity.
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Thursday, February 23, 2017
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
The Day After the Election
A dull ache.
My brother suggested I get out of the house and find something beautiful.
I did.
A show at the University Art Gallery: "Jessica Wohl's Love Thy Neighbor grapples with the fear, intolerance, and polarization the artist sees dividing communities and cities across the country, and answers those divisions with objects the evoke empathy and comfort. The patterns of Wohl's quilts invoke the fences, gates, and security bars that divide us, both from one another and from that to which we aspire. Quilts bring together disparate pieces, and so the medium in which these objects are rendered responds to that division. The quilts in the exhibition are stitched together from fabric found or purchased from thrift stores and yard sales across the country. For Wohl, the fabric pieces 'are hand-me-downs, throwaways, stained, smelly, loved, discarded and Someone Else's. They are Others that become one.' "
Nothing could have been more timely today.
My brother suggested I get out of the house and find something beautiful.
I did.
A show at the University Art Gallery: "Jessica Wohl's Love Thy Neighbor grapples with the fear, intolerance, and polarization the artist sees dividing communities and cities across the country, and answers those divisions with objects the evoke empathy and comfort. The patterns of Wohl's quilts invoke the fences, gates, and security bars that divide us, both from one another and from that to which we aspire. Quilts bring together disparate pieces, and so the medium in which these objects are rendered responds to that division. The quilts in the exhibition are stitched together from fabric found or purchased from thrift stores and yard sales across the country. For Wohl, the fabric pieces 'are hand-me-downs, throwaways, stained, smelly, loved, discarded and Someone Else's. They are Others that become one.' "
Nothing could have been more timely today.
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