Released on: 2014-01-01
My Bodies
Closely cropped white men populate the video work My Bodies. Their faces slide like a corporate PowerPoint over grainy, noisy textures as a host of black womenâJennifer Hudson, BeyoncĂ©, Aaliyah, and Ciara, among othersâsing variations on âmy body.â They are tightly sampled, as if to arrive at some kind of median. One clip that zooms into the pores of a sweaty pink forehead recalls a robotic text-to-voice line from another work, âAnd my skin shines with white peopleâs problems.â Unlike the white men, culled from a Google image search for CEOs, blackness is only ever heard and never seen. The artist explains, âIf you came back, would you choose to have the same body or not? Would you have the body of a woman again? Or a woman of color?â
