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February 11, 2021
A work by Shinique Smith at the Baltimore Museum of Art on January 15, 2020. Photo by Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images.
In recent years, the public has increasingly scrutinized museum collections that disproportionately represent dead white male artists a process that was accelerated radically in 2020 after a groundswell of support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
“With the killing of George Floyd, there was a new urgency around these issues,” Sasha Suda, director of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, tells Artnet News.
Inside the American Matrix of Artist Tschabalala Self
Words: Octavia Bürgel
Artworks: Tschabalala Self
For this week s FRONTPAGE, we re diving into the striking visual world of Tschabalala Self. In this piece (appearing in the March 2021 issue of HIGHStyle) the artist opens up about the ever-evolving Black mythology.
Metallic feedback swirls around Tschabalala Self’s disembodied voice as she begins to speak. “Okay idea for Eva Presenhuber show…,” “Cotton Mouth, the American artist’s debut solo exhibition with Swiss gallery Eva Presenhuber, on display at their New York venue this winter, featured new paintings, drawings, and sculptures arranged around a 16-minute audio track.