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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

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I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

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Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.

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I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.

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The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.

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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

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Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. And of the idea of becoming white. White being equated with pure and 'true': it takes a lot of energy to turn brown things into white things. A lot of pressure.

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To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.

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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.

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Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: November 26th, 1969

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