The euro system insists non white non straight non male artists carry a double load. Always. With an exemption for white gay men. So it’s point of anxiety at the entrance and a sort of people pleasing relationship is built immediately. Radicalism is tempered unless the notes are set a fire. But never big enough to take down the system. I wonder did Hans H ever make a painting? Is the painting a Trojan horse? Can it be? Love your piece.
This is so good! This piece gets to the heart of something that’s been bugging me about contemporary figurative Black art and the obsession with inserting Black bodies into the cannon to “rectify” erasure. Was looking through Faith Ringgold “Politics Power” and you’d be hard pressed to find any working contemporary Black artist making art that radical that truly speaks to the concerns of working class Black people.
The euro system insists non white non straight non male artists carry a double load. Always. With an exemption for white gay men. So it’s point of anxiety at the entrance and a sort of people pleasing relationship is built immediately. Radicalism is tempered unless the notes are set a fire. But never big enough to take down the system. I wonder did Hans H ever make a painting? Is the painting a Trojan horse? Can it be? Love your piece.
I’d like to see black people break out of this dynamic but I can’t say I’m optimistic about it.
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This is so good! This piece gets to the heart of something that’s been bugging me about contemporary figurative Black art and the obsession with inserting Black bodies into the cannon to “rectify” erasure. Was looking through Faith Ringgold “Politics Power” and you’d be hard pressed to find any working contemporary Black artist making art that radical that truly speaks to the concerns of working class Black people.