Hier können Sie die Auswahl einschränken.
Wählen Sie einfach die verschiedenen Kriterien aus.

eNews

X





The New Black Vanguard
© Arielle Bobb-Willis, New Orleans, 2017
from The New Black Vanguard (Aperture, 2019)

The New Black Vanguard

Photography Between Art and Fashion

Campbell Addy » Arielle Bobb-Willis » Micaiah Carter » Awol Erizku » Nadine Ijewere » Liz Johnson Artur » Quil Lemons » Namsa Leuba » Renell Medrano » Tyler Mitchell » Jamal Nxedlana » Daniel Obasi » Ruth Ossai » Adrienne Raquel » Dana Scruggs » Stephen Tayo »

Exhibition: 5 Feb – 24 Apr 2022

MBAL Musée des beaux-arts

Marie-Anne-Calame 6
2400 Le Locle

+41 (0)32-9338950


www.mbal.ch

Wed-Sun 11-17

The New Black Vanguard
© Tyler Mitchell, Untitled (Hijab Couture), New York, 2019
from The New Black Vanguard (Aperture, 2019)

The New Black Vanguard presents artists whose vivid portraits and conceptual images merge art and fashion photography, and break down long-established boundaries. Their work has been featured widely in fashion and society magazines, advertising campaigns and museums, as well as on their own social networks, re-instilling the contemporary visual vocabulary around beauty and the body with new vitality and substance.These images open up the conversation around the representation of the black body and black lives as subjects. Collectively, they celebrate black creativity and the hybridization of art, fashion and culture in the construction of an image. Seeking to challenge the idea that the black world is homogenous, the works serve as a form of visual activism. This is a perspective often found in this loose movement of emerging talents, who create photographs in very different contexts ¬– New York and Johannesburg, Lagos and London. The results ¬– often made in collaboration with black stylists and fashion designers – present new perspectives on the medium of photography and notions of race and beauty, gender, and power.

This exhibition includes a selection of works by these groundbreaking contemporary photographers, as well as a wall of images created by other young black photographers who are contributing to the movement. Showcases of publications, past and present, contextualise these images and trace the history of inclusion and exclusion, in the creation of the black commercial image, while proposing a brilliantly rethought future.

An exhibithion conducted in collaboration with Aperture, New York. Curated by Antwaun Sargent.

The New Black Vanguard
© Daniel Obasi, Moments of Youth, Lagos, Nigeria, 2019
from The New Black Vanguard (Aperture, 2019)
The New Black Vanguard
© Renell Medrano,from 1984, Harlem, New York, 2018
The New Black Vanguard (Aperture, 2019)
The New Black Vanguard
© Quil Lemons, New York, 2017
from The New Black Vanguard (Aperture, 2019)
The New Black Vanguard
© Nadine Ijewere, Untitled, 2018
from The New Black Vanguard (Aperture, 2019)
The New Black Vanguard
© Awol Erizku, Asiatic Lilies, 2017
from The New Black Vanguard (Aperture, 2019)
The New Black Vanguard
© Micaiah Carter, Three Men, 2018
from The New Black Vanguard (Aperture, 2019)
The New Black Vanguard
© Campbell Addy, Untitled, London, 2016
from The New Black Vanguard (Aperture, 2019)
The New Black Vanguard
© Arielle Bobb-Willis, New Orleans, 2018
from The New Black Vanguard (Aperture, 2019)