![]() I want people to enjoy themselves and feel changed to inspire them to either enact change or see the world and consider themselves in it in different ways. I feel that that is one of the greatest powers of art and one of the great goals for curating an exhibition. Genuinely when I curate an exhibition, it is because I wanted to have a lasting legacy in people’s minds, and to allow people to see the world slightly differently or to reconsider things. I think that it should spark many different questions and encourage people’s thoughts to splinter out and linger on in the way that people see the world. When I say visibility is key, or that a big scene is political, it’s also about how you see and what you’re thinking about when you see these works. I hope that when visitors go to this exhibition that it becomes quite a cathartic experience, that the audience understands the ideas of the gays and how that has severely affected the way that we see Black women, and how Black women are finally being reclaiming their agency as into how they see themselves.I want this exhibition to encourage people to look differently. And so I wondered how that might look when we shift the gaze to the Black woman, and what that might do for the future of the Black woman in the world, outside of the museum or art history. I think that this has obviously been a really interesting topic in recent times. I was also very inspired by Thelma Golden and the Black Male exhibition at The Whitney Museum of American Art, because I felt that the exhibition really shone an interesting light on how the Black man has been seen throughout history. So the overall goal was that I wanted to expand the way that we see women, including Black women, by having many different instances regarding how we see blackness, womanhood, and personhood. Therefore, it becomes doubly subjective when the Venus becomes black. Even when we take blackness away from the idea of the Venus, the Venus in general, when we think about art history, is still subjected to a white male gaze. There are obviously some nude or barely clothed images in the exhibition, but I also wanted to expand the idea of the Venus. One of the important things to me when I was creating this show, was that I didn’t want all of the images to depict nudity. ![]() For the Buckle Up Buttercup You Just Flipped My Witch Switch Shirt in contrast I will get this future, I would love to further and encourage the visibility of Black female artists, the depiction of Black women in art, and to expand the way that we see the Black female body or Black women in general. You might think that there would be more artists that are working in this field, but there are not as many as I would have hoped for while researching it. What I would hope for is more Black female artists and photographers, to continue this work. I wanted people to question how they look at visual culture in general a bit differently, and ask “How does that fit into a museum?” Buckle Up Buttercup You Just Flipped My Witch Switch Shirt, hoodie, tank top, sweater and long sleeve t-shirt So it was great and really interesting to put non-traditional modes of photography (i.e., photography that is not made, traditionally with the intent of being seen in the museum), into the museum. So when you see a Black woman or Black queerness on the cover of magazine, it is so politically important because seeing this type of image allows more people to understand and see Black women or queerness as beautiful and something that represents the wider world. Because it is so prolific, it creates a direct influence in the way that it impresses upon us. This is one of the important things I wanted to think about in this show: what photography is and how do we consume it? We see photography every day, on our phones, in magazines, and on billboards, and I think in many ways, photography is one of the most democratic ways of looking at art. In some other instances in the exhibition, we have work that has originally appeared in magazines, but has now elevated to a changed medium as we are seeing it in the museum. I think that she’s very aware about the representation not only of the Black female figure, but also of the work by the artists behind them. I was also really excited to include work by Amber Pinkerton, who has included some incredible work that also looks back at history (she is also a part of the Buckle Up Buttercup You Just Flipped My Witch Switch Shirt in contrast I will get this new guard of young Black fashion photographers).
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