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THE BLACKNESS SERIES
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The great thing is that she [Tina M. Campt] makes an observation that the work of so many Black artists today begins from presumption --- that if you want to see the work and understand the work, you have to share their perspective. And I think this is one of the things that certainly I see in The Black Interior, in The Blackness Series --- listening to you describe exactly that process of whoever you are, having to adjust to a position essentially to see what you already see -- Ekow Eshun, Culture writer and curator
An ongoing series of numbered text works, commencing in 2016 and continuing to date, documenting historical and contemporary Black-lived experiences alongside broader critical social commentary. The font is typically black typeface on a black background, making the works intentionally arduous to read. Through this technique, the work attempts to accentuate how Black communities are held in the tension between hypervisibility and invisibility in a fractured world. The works become fully legible to read as light reflects and interacts with the work—whether on a digital screen display or with the work itself.
There are currently seven iterations in The Blackness Series, totalling forty-three works.
Social commentary: Twenty-three online text works, below
Policy No.1 Disrupt The Existing Narratives: Vinyl wall installation, view here
Government Art Collection Works: Three screenprints on paper, view here
The Black Interior: Thirteen screenprints on paper, view here
MortiFications | However, I Can: Diptych and single screenprint on plywood, view here
The Mary Prince Narratives Part l: Fifty-one. online text panels view here
The Mary Prince Narratives Part II: Vinyl wall and floor installation, view here
For optimal viewing, access The Blackness Series on a desktop screen
Work No. 40: Deep thoughts on the profound rupture in history caused by the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved African people, 2024
Work No. 39: Untitled, 2024
Work No. 37: A Chronological Perspective, 2023
Work No. 36: Passed Over: Globally Every Black Parent's Worst Nightmare, 2023
Work No. 35: Fact! 2023
Work No. 34: Where Twitter Is At In The Year Twenty Twenty-Three, 2023
Work No. 33: #JustStop: Black Women Are Tired Of White People Asking Them To Touch Their Hair, 2023
Work No. 17: Tell it as it is Sis: Solidarity with Dawn Butler MP, 2021
Work No. 16: On Blackness intersecting with White Essex, 2021
Work No. 15: You think we can't see thought this bullshit? 2021
Work No. 14: Uncle Tom’s…sorry Tony Sewell's Race Report, 2021
Work No. 13: The Gatekeepers’ Reminder, 2020
Work No. 12: Self Care; As Meshell Ndegeocello Succinctly Put It, 2020
Work No. 11: Rest in Power George Floyd, 2020
Work No. 10: Gatekeepers, take note, 2020
Work No. 9: The Story of the Windrush Scandal, 2020
Work No. 8: Ode to Vanessa Nakate, 2020
Work No. 7: Policy note to Essex, 2020
Work No. 6: Yes, I was actually asked this question from a white woman CEO of a Hackney-based, predominately black service user charity, 2019
Work No. 5: Untitled, 2019
Work No. 4: Hey, we're over here!, 2018
Work No. 3: Yawn! #ffs, 2016
Work No. 2: Untitled, 2016
Work No. 1: Take it or leave it, 2016
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