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AYANA V JACKSON
AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY ARTIST
L e a p f r o g ( a b i t o f t h e o t h e r ) G r a n d M a t r o n A r m y , 2 0 1 0
Installation View
Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, RSA, 2011
Installation View
Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, RSA, 2011
The Conductress
Archival pigment print 88 x 60 cm
Installation View
Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, RSA, 2011
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In Leapfrog (a bit of the other) Grand Matron Army, multiple generations of women - from the pre-colonial to the afropolitan - are presented in tandem. By doing so we are reminded of complexity, legacy, and three-dimensionality. However, in the process of deconstructing these varied subjectivities, I am also motivated to interrogate how the woman’s body (specifically the non-white woman’s body) is eroticized / exoticised. To go further, as it relates to the black female body specifically, I question the myriad “caricatures” assigned to her during colonial and postcolonial times.
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