#ArtistatCB: Genevieve Gaignard on “Black is Beautiful”Posted in Articles, Arts, Autobiography, Media Archive, Passing, United States, Videos on 2019-09-04 22:53Z by Steven |
#ArtistatCB: Genevieve Gaignard on “Black is Beautiful”
Crystal Bridges Museum of Art
Bentonville, Arkansas
2019-03-13
“I photograph myself to talk about how we navigate through the world and how others see us.”
Genevieve Gaignard is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work focuses on photographic self-portraiture, sculpture, and installation to explore race, femininity, class, and their various intersections. The daughter of a black father and white mother, Gaignard’s youth was marked by a strong sense of invisibility. Was her family white enough to be white? Black enough to be black? Gaignard interrogates notions of “passing” in an effort to address these questions…
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