Christie Neptune’s “Unpacking Sameness” at NURTUREart
Exhibition Opening September 7, 2018
Christie Neptune: Unpacking Sameness
Opening reception: Friday, September 7, 7–9pm
On view: September 8–October 7, 2018
Neptune uses photography and filmed performance to unpack and dismantle the social and psychological constructs of race in America. In developing a visual language comprised of motifs from mid-seventeenth century Dutch painting, daguerreotypes of American slaves, and the low-fi films of black consciousness raising artists of 1970s New York, Neptune creates a narrative that oscillates between construction and deconstruction, oppression and liberation…
Unpacking Sameness maps a social history as it has been embodied and portrayed symbolically. Neptune, when embodying these symbols, takes steps to nuance and complicate their reading, to dislocate their place in time and space, and to pull loose the knots in our mental web of ideas about race and gender in America.
More information about this artwork in particular can be found on Neptune’s website.
Read more about the exhibition at NURTUREart.
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Brooklyn, NY 11206
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