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..., the portrait’s audience—finds herself in the unique, deferential position of being in the sitter’s own metaphorical, critical purview. Copyright © 2016 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016 black beauty Donyale Luna fashion models photography subject agency WHO’S ZOOMIN’ WHO...

... of the transatlantic trade as fundamental to European art history. Black agency over and above white atrocity ultimately remains the defining feature of his oeuvre. Donkor does justice to missing histories of African diasporic radicalism and resistance by extrapolating the lived realities of black subjects, enslaved...

... experience, and an equally unstable subject. These works reclaim the imagery associated with the “abject immigrant” to restore their agency as well as their humanity. Journal of Contemporary African Art 45 November 2019114 Nka DOI 10.1215/10757163-7916916 © 2019 by Nka Publications Allan deSouza...

... that contributed to the making of postapartheid trauma art—investigations into the psychic, moral, and ethical abjections of apartheid in the wake of testimonies from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Her ink and glue works represent the conjunction of material, process, and subject matter: Siopis relies...

... of rioting in South Africa’s visual field, where rioting has powerful historic meaning and contemporary political agency, is overdue. Artists who take on visualizing the riot face multiple challenges, including being aesthetically pigeonholed (politically, nationally, or otherwise). Visualizing the riot...

... of subjectivity, agency, and such GK: All societies contain internal dynamics of films mainly in Africa because nobody else is go• like true? change. To me it was important for my first film, ing to do it. I think that is our...

... on the language of portraiture to the police officer’s handwritten data as entered carve out a space for black representation and black onto the form and following Solomon’s subjection agency while interrogating white racist strategies to one stop and search incident in particular. of discrimination. As Gen...

... what it is! Michel Foucault, Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, 1997 Rien ne prouve que le plaisir soit un phénomène heureux. (Nothing proves that pleasure is a happy affair.) Georges Perros, Papiers collés 1, 1960 From art to ethnography and back again, the unclothed Black subject has consistently been...

... "Sartorial Ecumenes: as a mode of resistance and an agent tually revisionist veil, decorative, Eritrea/USA 1998 Africa Styles in a Social and Economic of critical modern subjectivity. The black, full length...

... inequalities, social divisions, and economic disparities within South African society. Non-white communities were subjected to forced removals from their homes and communities, resulting in the destruction of vibrant cultural and social networks. Apartheid created a legacy of trauma, loss...

.... Why did Maryland Institute College of Art) with those men, with you decide to make these photographs, and where did you those people, and in the midst of this gloriously expressive find your subjects? African American culture, I was reminded of the role...

... legendary also evincing some of the ambivalences and anxi­ largely for demonstrating that the identity discourse eties that come with it. of the postcolonial subject fundamentally oscillates Vogel needs no introduction. She is one of those between two poles. At one end...

... and popularized by black to exert agency rather than succumb to the limited men are not necessarily dandy, even if they are stylish. ideals placed on him by society. A black dandy is At the same time, to some, the word dandy provokes deliberate about letting you know exactly who he is more than compliments...

.... In a place like the Caribbean, we cannot take the Brunias used costume, in particular, as well as ges- agency of portraiture for granted in the aftermath of ture to stage and codify the newly creolizing West a much longer history of topographical and anthro- Indian society. The other two women...

... subjectivity.” Departing from binary paradigms in which Africa is “traditional,” Europe “modern,” and imperialism “modernizing,” Sembène saw his society as a space imbued with plural modernities; his historical narratives not only contest the usual representations of colonial Africa but also demystify all...

... of becom- sity. ing, Ethiopia—Awakening invites a clear set of com- parisons to Mary Turner. In both, Fuller accords Notes the black female subject an unprecedented level of Many thanks are due to Eddie Chambers, Elizabeth Hutchinson, agency as she...

... the presentpresent from the past-present. The present necessarily contains the memory of the past and the 88 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 52 May 2023 One Hundred and Two Houses on Fire, 2019. Video still, digital HD file, 16:9, 9:43, b&w, silent representation of the subject remembering...

...- Launderette. In these films, the third world alerts the question: cultural subjects are expressedly what contents define the contexts negotiating various identities or in which these classificatory terms fighting relegation to minority...

... the over-thirty year evolution of hip- and make-up artists, not to mention black-owned advertising hop from a Bronx-bred art form to an international multi-media agencies, as well as legal and public relations firms whose pri• sensation. The exhibition posits itself...

... own agency. agency. own its and gravity own its cide. The body...