{"id":56538,"date":"2018-06-08T02:42:56","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T02:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56538"},"modified":"2018-06-08T02:42:56","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T02:42:56","slug":"the-bi-racial-artist-using-white-passing-characters-to-talk-about-blackness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56538","title":{"rendered":"The Bi-Racial Artist Using White-Passing Characters to Talk About Blackness"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bi-Racial Artist Using White-Passing Characters to Talk About Blackness<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Sleek<\/a>
\n2018-06-07<\/p>\n

Harriet Shepherd<\/strong><\/a>, Junior Editor<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nDrive-By, Side-Eye<\/em>, 2016 \u00a9<\/sup> Genevieve Gaignard<\/a>, courtesy of the artist and Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Genevieve Gaignard<\/a> uses American stereotypes and comfortable settings to confront uncomfortable issues surrounding race and identity.<\/em><\/p>\n

American artist Genevieve Gaignard<\/a> is a homebody<\/a>. Not in the sense that she\u2019s confined to the couch every Friday night, but rather that she\u2019s infatuated with domestic spaces. \u201cI\u2019ve always had this fascination with what people surround themselves with in their homes,\u201d she tells SLEEK. It\u2019s a theme that\u2019s been a constant in her work since she threw in the towel at cookery school<\/a> and headed down a fine art path. From the panoramic interiors she lensed for her Yale application, to the carefully curated domestic installations that made up her solo show, Smell the Roses<\/em><\/a>, at the Californian African American Museum<\/a> earlier this year, to the household-centric creations currently on display at the Stephen Friedman Gallery<\/a> in London<\/a> \u2014 home is where Gaignard\u2019s heart is.<\/p>\n

Though she\u2019s what you\u2019d call a multidisciplinary artist, it\u2019s Gaignard\u2019s photography that\u2019s earned her such widespread attention. Known for turning the lens on herself, Gaignard\u2019s Cindy Sherman<\/a>-esque self-portraits occupy a complex realm where class, race and gender intersect, seeing the artist assume caricatured roles that toy with her own bi-racial identity and the way that blackness and whiteness is perceived. And the home, more often than not, provides the comfortable backdrop for Gaignard\u2019s more uncomfortable subject matter…<\/p>\n

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