KEHINDE WILEY - STREETCASTING YOUNG BLACK MEN AS THE HEROES OF HISTORY“There were certain expectatio
KEHINDE WILEY - STREETCASTING YOUNG BLACK MEN AS THE HEROES OF HISTORY“There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century… Is it the responsibility of the colored artist or the ethnic artist to create works that are designed to exist in opposition to a certain political structure? … I noticed that the work of my friends who were white and male, specifically, existed in a type of freedom that was not bound by certain political questions… Is it ever possible for the artist to imagine a state of absolute freedom?… I think that I’m increasingly aware of the fact that in order to work towards any statement that’s radically global or universal, you have to start in a place that’s radically intimate and particular.” -- source link
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