Omar Victor Diop: Black Subjects in the Frame | HENI Talks
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
- The relationship between the state and the Black subject is, in many ways, still a highly contested one. What can we draw from historic imagery in order to move forward?
In this HENI Talk, Dr Mark Sealy examines black identity during moments of social upheaval and confrontation, as represented in the oeuvre of artist Omar Victor Diop. In his photographic portraits, Diop uses his own body to restage charged moments in history in a quest for us to look at and learn from these events afresh. His work encourages the viewer to question the narrative of history that we are traditionally taught and see Black people themselves as the agents of change - exploring, for example, the role of Black slaves during the first major revolt in Haiti in the 1790s, or the grassroots dimension of the US civil rights movement in the 1960s, or the often hidden presence of Black women in the history of activism.
Press play to hear some of the ways the framing of Black identity through history has hindered, obscured and liberated the lives of many people across the globe.
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Am proud of you Othentic Omar !!!
🇸🇳 Ima take this mini movie as a powerful motivationnal message and things that going on right there BLACK POWERING thx for inspiring me you the G.O.A.T!
I am going to work your art with my students ( I am an art teacher in Rio de Janeiro)
It's so lovely to hear you will use the film in this way, Gabriela. We hope your classes enjoy it.
HENI Talks they loved it !
@@GabrielaCaldas Brilliant! I hope some of our other films may be of use to you too.
All good wishes, The HENI Talks team.
🙏🏼 Thank you for this honest and most important message which is so relatable today .
I am attending his exhibition tonight...at the Minnesota Institute of Art.
Hope our film helped contextualise his work for you!