A notion that often goes unchallenged in the liberal media landscape is the idea of representation as a quick fix for all race relations-related plights. While the holding of space by Black figures in historically white arenas is of course a necessary act of transgression, how these figures articulate temporal discourses around the positionality of Blackness and the Black body in the Western canon is of far more importance.
Occupying the spot where contemporary painting and body politics converge, American portraitist Amy Sherald opens her first European solo show ‘The World We Make’ at Hauser & Wirth London. You have likely encountered her work before. Upon rising from relative obscurity Sherald went on to paint the official portrait of the 44th First Lady of the United States of America Michelle Obama and the Vanity Fair cover image of Breonna Taylor, whose unjust killing by the American police force was one of the catalysts for 2020’s summer of protests.
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