{"id":1261,"date":"2017-05-01T16:34:35","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T15:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2017-05-23T14:08:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T13:08:19","slug":"hack-for-your-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/hack-for-your-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Hack for (y)our rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Dark soul realism.<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1281 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/Saba-40-x-40-cm-Acrylic-on-paper.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/Saba-40-x-40-cm-Acrylic-on-paper.png 532w, http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/Saba-40-x-40-cm-Acrylic-on-paper-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/Saba-40-x-40-cm-Acrylic-on-paper-298x300.png 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Saba, 40 x 40 cm, Acrylic on paper, 2011 \u00a9\u00a0Daniela Yohannes &#8211; courtesy of the artist.<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1282 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/Taboo-50-x-40-cm-Oil-on-canvas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/Taboo-50-x-40-cm-Oil-on-canvas.jpg 468w, http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/Taboo-50-x-40-cm-Oil-on-canvas-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Taboo, 50 x 40 cm, Oil on canvas, 2013 \u00a9\u00a0Dalila Dall\u00e9as Bouzar &#8211; courtesy of the artist.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One might associate representation, when coming to (female) African and\/or black bodies in particular, to the political. Yet the pitfall is often to only take into account one skin&amp;flesh body representation. I mean, be sure that \u00ab our \u00bb bodies have been made political : demonized, dissected, excruciated &#8211; once ; fantasized, groped, publicized &#8211; twice ; anonymized, objectified, desensitized &#8211; still. Yet, what about our souls ? Or\u00a0is it still and definitely to be understood that we don\u2019t have any ? The religious lexicon might not be as famous as it was once, yet <strong>I believe that what makes anyone an artist<\/strong> &#8211; and especially a genius \u2018figurative\u2019 painter &#8211; <strong>is its ability, not to seize\/depict\/capture, but to touch\/sketch\/raise the complex and intricated array of emotions, feelings and beliefs of their alter-ego ; which I call, the soul.<\/strong> And that is precisely what fascinates me with both Daniela&#8217;s and Dalila&#8217;s works. So please put aside your (western) technical \/ (western) objective \/ (western) art history and other (western) criteria aside for a minute, and let go before their a-temporal, multi-dimensional and trans-spiritual representation, of \u00ab our \u00bb souls. At least, that&#8217;s what I believe should be at core when raising\u00a0up \u00ab representation\u00a0\u00bb issues\u2026 Don&#8217;t you think so ?<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>A new French school.<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/164228702?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0\" width=\"532\" height=\"438\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Cit\u00e9philia, 2016\u00a0\u00a9 Eden du Paradis\u00a0&#8211; courtesy of the artist.<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/136408879?title=0&amp;amp;byline=0\" width=\"532\" height=\"438\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Erotica Romance, 2016 \u00a9 Kengn\u00e9 Teguia\u00a0&#8211; courtesy of the artist.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Being black makes you a freak. You are expected to have uncommon (= exotic) skills and references or, on the contrary, inbred\u00a0disability and\u00a0weaknesses (from stupidity or violence to PTSDs\u2026). You cannot stand for yourself really. In both cases, whatever you do or propose, act and believe, create and overturn&#8230;, it will be drown into an exogenous lecture and critical reception &#8211; which btw, is likely to be\u00a0a naive\/hypocritical\/scared praise rather than a constructive disagreement. And by exogenous I mean that it won&#8217;t question your personal trajectory only but what it may mean\u00a0\u00abon behalf on the group \u00bb. No matter what you will always be considered to speak for your race.\u00a0Yet don\u2019t get me wrong : I do believe in the importance of a\u00a0\u00ab collective responsibility \u00bb. And even if it can\u00a0sometimes feel like a burden, all the more at a time when we all seek for individual recognition, I think it might as well be some kind of advantage! Being an outcast, isn\u2019t something to be proud or ashamed of. In a sense : it is just the way it\u00a0is. <strong>Thus what\u00a0matters is how responsibility in fact relates to\u00a0a certain sense of freedom : the very unique way you live can become exemplary.\u00a0And it doesn\u2019t mean you have to follow by the general rules, it means you can make your own!<\/strong> And in a sense that is what Eden and Kengn\u00e9 make me realize. Their art is freer than other expressions. The more they accumulate freaky \u2018conditions\u2019, the more they put you off the scent. And I guess that\u2019s my second definition of art : \u00ab a state or weird \u00bb &#8211; illegitimate, indisciplined and crawling.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>The archipelago-opera.<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1280\" src=\"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/GDL-2016-Julien-Creuzet-01-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"532\" height=\"798\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/GDL-2016-Julien-Creuzet-01-683x1024.jpg 683w, http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/GDL-2016-Julien-Creuzet-01-683x1024-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">2016 &#8211; sculpture &#8211; votive, jeans, coquillage cassis-cornuta, vase, pigments alimentaires, perle v\u00e9g\u00e9tale, bois flott\u00e9, bois, peinture indigo industrielle, (divers fluides), affiche po\u00e8me, 149,5 x 79,5 cm\u00a0\u00a9 Julien Creuzet\u00a0&#8211; courtesy of the artist.<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Julien&#8217;s work oscillates between art-video, installation and a singular presence of the voice, which he truly performs. His works are poems, like an hymn to a star archipelago. <strong>To conclude this journey then, here is an artist with a singular clairvoyance, who gives body to the sound, lightness to matter and\u00a0tells the flight of the strangest souls.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00ab Of an intensity, cyan, a child-dog, | and its spotted body. | Cyan, blood, | on the path-dog, where the blue body lies, on the water bed. Sepal, | Sepal, | lotus bowels. |Blue body, | works, | within the volcano hole. | Blue, efficient, his son, sky, his indigo child. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Julien Creuzet<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(<u>Original extract, in French :<\/u>\u00a0&#8220;D\u2019une intensit\u00e9, cyan, enfant-chien, | au corps tachet\u00e9. | Cyan, sang, | sur le chemin-chien, ou g\u00eet le corps bleu, sur le lit d\u2019eau. S\u00e9pale, | s\u00e9pale, | entrailles de lotus. | Corps bleu, | travaille, | dans l\u2019orifice du volcan. | Bleu, efficient, son fils, ciel, son enfant indigo.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">More !<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/africasout.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AFRICA&#8217;S OUT<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/danielayohannes.space\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daniela Yohannes<\/a>\u00a0\/ (interview to come)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daliladalleas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dalila Dall\u00e9as Bouzar<\/a>\u00a0\/ (read the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/dalila-dalleas-bouzar-eating-human-flesh-eating-oneself\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">=&gt;<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newhive.com\/numin\/abdoulaye-numin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eden du Paradis<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user30618527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kengn\u00e9 Teguia<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliencreuzet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Julien Creuzet<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">COVER :\u00a0<span class=\"irc_ho\" dir=\"ltr\"><a class=\"_ZR irc_hol i3724\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shariffa.com\/africasout\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-noload=\"\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwj0u4LYgc_TAhUB2xoKHY3xArIQjB0IBg\">Shariffa Ali<\/a>,\u00a0AFRICA&#8217;S OUT\u00a0logo, 2016<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICA&#8217;SOUT! is a creative dynamic space made to initiate + create radical ideas that change the way we all engage with Africa. Highlighting the urgency of pressing social and political issues, they, like us, believe in &#8216;Imaginative Activism&#8217;. And we are more than thrilled they asked us to collaborate on a short art curation format to be also featured through their instagram : @africasout. <3\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[37,34],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-blackboard","tag-black-swag-empowerment","tag-black-future-art","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blackstothefuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}