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...Jareh Das; Cindy Sissokho [email protected] © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 REVIEWS BODY VESSEL CLAY: BLACK WOMEN, CERAMICS AND CONTEMPORARY ART TWO TEMPLE PLACE, LONDON JANUARY 29 APRIL 24, 2022 We have learned to defy our sense of time to shift, to work from and rebuild past cultural...

... center is explored in this article through the lens of portraiture and fashion. Examining the unique social presence of the Ethiopian royal family in the media, both at home and abroad, this article presents an analysis of the fashionably dressed bodies of Emperor Haile Selassie and his children within...

... it means to be a two-bodied artist in today’s culture. Mwangi Hutter’s persona also innately interrogates prefixed notions of Africanness and Europeanness, as well as the construct of the insider versus outsider. From a historical and political standpoint, their fused identity confers new status on Ingrid...

...Michelle Stephens “Defacing the Gaze and Reimagining the Black Body: Contemporary Caribbean Women Artists” examines works by visual artists Oneila Russell, Holly Bynoe, Patricia Kaersenhout, and Ebony Patterson, exploring how these contemporary artists wrestle with the terms in which we see black...

... in which the black female body in particular has been represented. Christopher Cozier describes the genre of Caribbean portraiture produced against the background of a long history of colonized representation as “a visual territory not exclusively of our own making.” This article presents a number...

...Jean-Ulrick Désert The work of Jean-Ulrick Désert, a Haitian-born artist currently based in Berlin, Germany, has often used the image of the body, most notably in his earlier performative works such as Negerhosen2000, where members of the public were allowed to submit portraits of the artist...

... and stints of minstrel mimicry are highly THE UNMAPPED BODY: jarring and confrontational. Boyce's fi• 3 BLACK BRITISH...

...Carla Williams Copyright © 2007 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2007 MAUDELLE BASS A MODEL BODY Carla Williams hroughout art history, the artist's model has twentieth century during which black women's T been the unsung, uncredited collaborator...

... to that memory. Abebe’s jerbas explore the contemporary predicaments of Ethiopia, where ethnic tensions have proliferated and where the trademarks of the human body are objectified to one’s ethnic identity rather than to the body’s lived experience as a human being. The evocative power of the composition...

... May 2023 DOI 10.1215/10757163-10435022 © 2023 by Nka Publications Diasporic Bodies The Video Art of Irineu Destourelles Ana Nolasco I rineu Destourelles is part of the Cape Verdean diaspora. Born in 1974 in Cape Verde, he lived in Lisbon from the age of four years. Later, he studied at the Willem de...

...Dereck Conrad Murray Copyright © 2007 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2007 KEHINDE WILEY SPLENDID BODIES Dereck Conrad Murray...

... of Contemporary African Art 2017 glass armonica hysteria repression body sound RAPTUROUS BODIES A CONVERSATION WITH CAMILLE NORMENT Katya García-Antón Katya García-Antón and Antonio Cataldo: Before we discuss your...

...Kanitra Fletcher How do you see blackness? What does it look like? Can it be shown? In seeming response to such uncertainties, artists Renée Green, Satch Hoyt, and Sheila Pree Bright forgo representation of the black body altogether. In installation and photographic works— Seen (1990), Say It Loud...

... always centered on the body, or more specifically, the artist's body. Often involving...

...Francesco Bonami Copyright © 1999 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 1999 wipimrii The Work of Bodys Isek Kingelez Journal of Contemporary African Art "It is the desperate moment when we discover that this empire, which had...

...Kodwo Eshun Copyright © 2002 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2002 ongoing conservative revisionism multiculturalism'. Aesthetic rep• intensive tourist economy linked The Bodies...

...Jareh Das The late British artist Donald Rodney (1961–98) developed a unique vocabulary critiquing wider representations of the black male body that extended beyond his status as a person living with sickle cell disease to the lives of others with a shared racial background. Critical yet full...

...Cheryl Finley; Deborah Willis How the black body has been imagined in the West has always been a rich site for global examination and contestation. The representation and depiction of black peoples often has been governed by prevailing attitudes about race and sexuality. How the black body...