Art Q2 Flashcards
The marvellous sugar baby
-installation art dominated by a central white sculpture depicting a woman with African features in the shape of a sphynx and 15 other sculptures
-Installation located at Domino Sugar Refinery
-Sugar: white = subtlety as it is refined. Brown= goes through process of separating sugar but
molasses is disregarded
Put up in 2014 ,10 thousand viewers took pictures + posed with exposed vulva
-SPHINX: white sculpture with African features. In the shape of African Mammy (enslaved black woman/girl who worked as a domestic) -> larger in size + looked after children.
-Oddly seductive image with exposed breasts. Prominent genitals = mammy forced to endure
sexual advances
-Fig gesture = dig at the industry that enslaved millions
-BLACKAMOORS: First made out of pure sugar. Then collapse due to heat.
Sculpture that would be in a white person is home - exotic + subservient
-LOGISTICS: 35 x 75 feet, team of 20 fabricators, 3-D sculpting, milling from digital Atelia.
Foam skeleton overlaid with 40 tons of sugar, resin and water
-OVERALL MSG: A comment on the brutality of a black life due to rank and the commercial lust of white supremacy
The key in hand
-about 50 thousand keys suspended from a red string that is attached to an old boat
-KEYS: tell many stories because she gathered them from around the world. (collection boxes outside post offices)
-Everyday objects that are important to a person’s life > collect memories over time.
A sign of trust + open new doors to new opportunities
-RED THREAD: can represent the body and the soul
connects and binds together because it is a neutral pathway to human brain
tangled = peoples relationships
-BOAT: shows how imagination can travel the world
Shows refugees are capable of escape because it seems like the boat is floating calmly along huge sea of memories
-LOGISTICS: thread attached to the roof which is attached to keys -> labyrinth of materials took 1 ½ years to create
Scramble for Africa
-installation of 14 life sized mannequins in Dutch wax printed cotton sitting around a table in discussion
-BODY LANGUAGE: shows they are arguing.
Folded arms = dissatisfied
Tow arms forward on table = trying to reason
Arms together = in alliance but they just don’t agree with one another
-TITLE: each are fighting for bits of Africa
-TABLE: has a map of Africa on it. Different clothes = different countries. They are colonials
fighting over Africa.
All are headless showing they are equally mindless
