Opening Reception for "OPP: Other People's Property," featuring the work of Hank Willis ThomasOpening Reception for "OPP: Other People's Property," featuring the work of Hank Willis Thomashttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/212611WCC Art Gallery2013-01-25T17:30:002013-01-25T19:30:00
January 25, 5:30PM
WCC Art Gallery
Description
OPP: Other People's Property
Curated by Kalia Brooks
Friday, January 25–Friday, March 8, 2013
Opening Reception
Friday, January 25, 2013
5:30 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
Curated by Kalia Brooks, OPP: Other People's Property surveys the work of photo conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas. Across photography, film, sculpture and other media, Thomas recontextualizes the visual languages deployed by advertising and popular culture writ large, considering how contrived visions of beauty perpetuate race and gender-based identities. Re-circulating that imagery, Thomas's work traces the threads by which identity, ownership, authorship, and commerce grip the body, particularly the black body. In so doing, Thomas understands bodies both as sites of identification and objects of consumption, considering our own formation as consumer-subjects and viewers.
OPP: Other People's Property is made possible with the support of the John B. Hurford '60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support Liberal Arts Creative Residencies at the Tri-Colleges, Haverford, Bryn Mawr and Swarthmore Colleges.
Link: http://www.haverford.edu/exhibits
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