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Put your hands where my eyes can see

Type: Calls For Papers [View all]
Posted by: Flux Factory
Deadline: Mon, August 2nd, 2021

Let’s think about the shared history of Black Folks in the same way poet Hanif Abdurraqib describes the Soul Train Line:  A narrow writhing seemingly endless tunnel of Black Folks smiling and clapping. Where, in the center, partners are brought together - sometimes by intention, many times by fate. And together, using what knowledge they have of themselves and their bodies, they must make their way out - to the other side - urged on by the blooming claps around them.

These shared stories become less visible as we move through the present and into the future. Our histories are often confined to the margins (a tunnel of its own) and redacted to a distorted past tense. In their place, a violent vernacular has been built, creating an imaging that finds Black Folks - to quote sociology and professor Ruha Benjamin: “trapped between regimes of invisibility and hypervisibility”

“Put your hands where my eyes can see” is an exhibition that considers images - the capacity of an image to influence public imagination and societal memory; how the powerful have effectively privatized mainstream imagination by maintaining control of imagery. Resulting in a distortion of entire histories and current narratives, while suppressing our possible futures.

For the exhibition Put your hands where my eyes can see, we are looking for work made with lenses, via printmaking, painting, drawing and sculptural techniques, through performance practices, and like Ms. Toni Morrison said, moves to “carve away at the accretions of deceit, ignorance, and sheer malevolence” embedded in the images & language of the powerful, so that new ways of imaging, and thus new futures are “not only available, but inevitable.”

Posted on Thu, July 1st, 2021
Expires on Mon, August 2nd, 2021

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