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AYANA V JACKSON
AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY ARTIST
B l a c k M a d o n n a T a b l o i d s , 2 0 1 1
Installation View
Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, RSA, 2011
Rhetoric of Supremacy, 2011
Archival pigment print 62 x 91 cm
Meaning Undergoes Trauma
Archival pigment print 62 x 91 cm
Installation View
Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, RSA, 2011
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The exhibition this work belongs to is titled PROJECTION SURFACE. Its aim is to question ideas bounced off /reflected in black skin. The central premise is that the impoverished body in the global south often serves as a projection surface for the perpetuation of a limited set of narratives. Stable identities are preferred over those more nuanced. In Black Madonna Tabloid series we look at this via the media. By appropriating tabloid typography and layout I reverses roles and question the ethics around the use of a baby’s being as a site for the promotion of philanthropic causes.
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