Exhibition Details
Visibility & Resistance celebrates the recent acquisition of a collection of contemporary Afro-Mexican photography. By foregrounding the voices and vision of afro-descendant photographers, this exhibition aims to amplify the activism of those on the frontlines of a national movement to increase Black visibility and cultural pride in Mexico.
Additional Details
The photographers featured here represent a multiplicity of afro-descendent identities. Though divergent in their practices, some common threads link their work. They frequently eschew the documentary mode–an approach that has tended to objectify Afro-Mexicans as exotic others bound by poverty and racial difference. By contrast, the photographers featured here employ conceptual approaches, digital manipulation, and fictionalized staging to reconstruct the visual field for Afro-Mexican identity.
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
(135th St and Malcolm X Blvd)
New York, NY
Image: Untitled from En Fuga Interminable series, Dolores Medel, 2015-18, Metallic paper / courtesy of Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture