Ibrahim Hussein
Gallery Respond
03-04-20
Gallery Respond
To begin, the gallery was amazing because I had never seen art like that before. When the artist explains the background stories of why he painted it, I would say to myself I understand it now or I could relate to that painting. In the artist painting there were a lot of different colors. Also, the artist used fabrics to do the clothing of the characters in some of his paintings. I thought that it was very cool and unique to see. When he explains each of the unique paintings, there is a story to tell behind each of them and it connected to me because I saw some of the events he explains like the women gathering. As a result I was very amazed by the colors the way he explains each story and how many days and weeks to do a painting. In Ibou theme you can tell that it was about African roots. It was about African roots because he used a lot of symbols in his art. Like in one of his paintings there is a man dancing and having white face paint. When he explained what the white face paint meant, it became more clear. The white paint drawing means which tribe you are connected to.
First, In the other gallery it was different than I imagined. I never thought that you could make amazing art of dreadlocks. In Adebunmi Gbadebo she made an amazing art that connects to her heritage. if you ask me about the long dreadlocks in the middle of the room. I think that she is trying to say that her people are all connected to one another and the long hours that African American have put to pick up cotton. In her artwork you can tell that she cares about her roots by putting hair in the homemade paper. I think that means she stinks to her roots. When you see here work you can tell there is a lot of emotional work and heritage. The theme of the art gallery is slavery. It was the theme of slavery because it was black history month. In the art gallery there's a picture of a home which was a farm so that slaves can pick up cotton.
Also, the research plays a big role in those two arts work. To explain, the two artists have to know their heritage. In Ibou's case he lived in that time period. He explained how his parents let him learn three different languages to know his heritage. The example is that his parents let him learn his native languages tongue, arabic, and french. They teach him arabic so he can understand his religion, which is Muslims. In the other art gallert it was about the slave trade, because we can see in one of the painting their were slave were begin sold and tread like they were property. In the art gallery the artist traces her aunt sisters which lead her to a farm that her aunt sisters were being slaved.
Another, the work addresses the artist's own history by explaining their heritage and cultures. They both are african american. They both explain to the viewer about black history month. The work is also activist because it tries to help the cause of black history month in american and explains that we all are the same but different cultures. Also the exhibitions do show social issues, identity, and activism. The social issues are African American are treated differently. The identity is being black in America. It is activism because it is trying to help the causes and make it clear that black people are the same like you and me.
3+ Quotes
“Intervention”
Given the global context of action and vastly distributed nature of agency there is a need for this form of situated condensation and slowing down of agents, forces, spaces, and events.
“The word “amateur” is very rarely used in a positive sense. It is a disciplinary term used to discourage hybridity and maintain profitable professional and social separations. For the most part amateurs are second-class citizens in the area of knowledge production. However, in the context of political and cultural intervention,amateurs have a significant and vital role to play. They can have the ability to spot contradictions and rhetorical cover-ups within the dominant paradigms, are freer to recombine elements of paradigms thought dead or unrelated, and can apply everyday life experience to their deliberations with greater ease than can specialists”
“André Breton with his strategy of objective chance or the Situationist Guy Debord, who proposed dérive (‘a technique of transient passage through varied ambiences’) as a both methods for studying terrain and emotionally disorienting oneself as well as an intermediate step toward the realization of a larger field of study of psychogeography, fostering among other things the creation of maps in which specific regions of the city would be noted for arousing particular affective or aesthetic responses..”
Ibou Ndoye
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| Adebunmi Gbadebo |
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GOING HOME
In my picture, I drew the Palestinian flag. In the middle, I drew a map of Palestine with the kufuya. Kufuya is the symbol of resistance in Palestine. The Palestinian flag is composed of four colors: red, black, green and white and each color represents symbols of protected the Palestinian land. For example, red symbols that the Palestinians will continue to fight for their land, the black color means that Palestines will die to protect their land. Moreover, green is a symbol of the olive trees and lastly white represents heaven on earth. At the bottom of the paper, it is written Palestine in Arabic.
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