VIEW IN MY ROOM
Austria
Photography, Color on Paper
Size: 37.4 W x 28.3 H x 0.4 D in
Ships in a Tube
Study for art research project Identikit I am a caucasian arab and have always felt people's bias as soon as they hear my last name, Abouzeid. While complaining to my Senegalese friend, Alex, he laughed and said how lucky I was. "If you don't introduce yourself, nobody knows. I walk in the door and the first thing they notice is my colour as if I was naked before them." We discussed this for hours and I realised just how right he was. Before me sat an MMA champion, university graduate, entrepreneur and truly peaceful soul. Yet more often than not when I heard others describing him, the first word out of their mouths was 'black'. Everything he identified with was secondary to his naked colour, not even his heritage of "African" or "Senegalese" which would have obviously hinted at his colour but also his culture. I had always discounted this as a simple way to describe him but later realised it was like stripping him naked. Together we decided to create this series as a metaphor for his experience and how it binds his identity. This is not a series about past slavery but about how bias can enslave our own minds and the people to which we direct it. Model: Alex SHot in Florence, Italy
Photography:Color on Paper
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:25
Size:37.4 W x 28.3 H x 0.4 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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Mark Abouzeid is an award-winning filmmaker, photojournalist, and multi-dimensional social artist. "All my work is inspired by a need to provoke social and cultural dialogue. The medium changes dependent on the subject, context and message. I have usurped Renaissance paintings, thousands of meters of silk and antique Afghan doors. The results can range from photorealism to performances to installations to documentaries. The medium to me is only a vehicle and I often have to learn a new art technique in order to accomplish my vision." He has recently begun an art research project, "Identikit", with art historian, Sophie Beer. This project will explore the validity of social artefacts and their interpreted context by means of participatory social art experiments.
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