“What does it mean that… I see an image of an enslaved person and recognizing that if I

“What does it mean that… I see an image of an enslaved person and recognizing that if I’m alive in that time, that’s where I stand in the composition. I recognize that the composition itself is beautiful. It is laid out masterfully… . It is an internal conflict for me as a maker, standing on both sides of that line, the maker side and the black man who recognizes that that would be my space in the composition. That is life. That is real. That’s the grittiness of it." —Titus Kaphar on Shifting the Gaze (2017), on view in One: Titus Kaphar through October 13.⁠⁠Titus Kaphar (American, born 1976). [Detail] Shifting the Gaze, 2017. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum, William K. Jacobs Jr., Fund, 2017.34. © artist or artist’s estate -- source link

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