Bloc Projects Becoming fugitive state Dominique White
23 Sep-23 October 2021
https://www.ourfaveplaces.co.uk/whats-on/becoming-fugitive-state-dominique-white/
This dialogue is taken verbatim from the link above:
“Becoming fugitive state is an exhibition of drawings by artist Dominique White, continuing her examination of Blackness through Afrofuturism and dredging the ‘Shipwreck[ed]’.
To date, Dominique has been exploring what she calls the ‘Shipwreck(ed)’: ‘a self-reflexivity and a state of being’. Teeming with life while bereft of it, clusters of shells, raffia and clay cling to hooks and ropes to testify Black transoceanic histories and futurities. For Becoming fugitive state, Dominique presents a series of old and new drawings that dives further into the intangible, leaving the ‘Shipwreck(ed)’ for a ‘Shipwreck(ing)’. Here she works through what writer and scholar Saidiya Hartman calls ‘the diffusion of terror’ that shapes Black becoming.
Dominique’s materials in this project are pared down to paper, chalk and kaolin clay. She lands on mutable territories / terror-tories of impossibility. Always already embodied in Blackness, impossibility is as much lived in everyday horrors as it is beyond comprehension. From unrealised propositions to tenuous mark-making, Dominique attempts to (dis)articulate what can’t be – but is.”
https://www.blackdominique.com/
Personal thoughts:
I really enjoyed this exhibition I loved the presentation of it with all the similar pictures of detritus spread across the black sea with the white flour thrown against the floor.
It’s inspiring to me what you can do with how you present your work and how that adds another element to the interpretation.
I am a fan of using white images on a black background and I am currently using scraperboard where you reveal the white image from scraping away the black so these images have a certain pertinence to me.
I have looked through Dominique’s site and this image is one that sparked my interest.
I love the gesture to this image of pulling away from a violent bondage.
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