Muriel Quancard

11/14/2020

Our interview with Jen Ray (Part I) for the Women We Love series. 🧡

09/22/2020

09/10/2020

The Apsáalooke artist, Wendy Red Star, manipulates archival photos to explore her tribe’s past.

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06/17/2020

« Controversies involving race and the art world are often discussed in terms of diversity and representation—as if having the right representative from a group or a larger plurality of embodied difference would absolve art institutions from historic forms of exclusion.
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This book offers another approach, taking into account not only questions of racial representation but also issues of structural change and the redistribution of resources.
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In essays, conversations, discussions, and artist portfolios, contributors confront in new ways questions at the intersection of art, race, and representation. »

06/14/2020

Nick Cave created his first Soundsuit in 1992 as a manifestation to the beating of Rodney King by 4 LAPD police officers.
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« It was a very hard year for me because of everything that came out of the Rodney beating. I started thinking about myself more and more as a black man – as someone who was discarded, devalued, viewed as less than...
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And then I happened to be in the park this one particular day and looked down at the ground, and there was a twig. And I just thought, well, that’s discarded, and it’s sort of insignificant. And so I just started then gathering the twigs, and before I knew it, I was, had built a sculpture...
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I was inside a suit, you couldn’t tell if I was a woman or man; if I was black, red, green or orange; from Haiti or South Africa. I was no longer Nick. I was a shaman of sorts. »

06/14/2020

Do you know the intention behind Nick Cave’s Soundsuits? Take a guess or do your research because this series begun in 1992 is more relevant than ever.
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I did multiple presentation of Nick Cave’s work from the seminal Soundsuits to his most recent projects, but it’s time to go back to the roots.
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I took this photo at the Park Avenue Armory in New York in one of Nick Cave’s performance 2 years ago. The performer is here getting dressed in a Soundsuit, costume-like sculptures that make noise as they move. But why the Soundsuits?

06/13/2020

Artists challenge the way I think. « Only Skin Deep » curated by Cuban-American artist Coco Fusco and curator Brian Wallis at ICP - International Center of Photography was one of these instances where I was given the opportunity to rethink what I learnt.
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It was 2003. I had been working in New York for a few years already. I had left behind my bourgeoise upbringing in Bordeaux, a city that was a key player in the commerce of slaves, and I had begun questioning the history and concepts I was taught in my country of origin.
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In this groundbreaking exhibition about racial iconography and its catalogue I became acquainted with many ideas connected to the question of race as a social construct. These photographs, essays and statements profoundly shook my European sensibility and open pathways for me to investigate.

05/23/2020

Did you know? Rudolf Steiner designed the Goetheanum wholly of cast concrete.

It represents a pioneering use of visible concrete in architecture, particularly in its achievement of sculptural shapes on an architectural scale.

Once inside, the experience of navigating the interior spaces can be described as moving within a giant sculpture.