ブルックリン美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (ブルックリン美術館Instagram)「In this photograph by the Brooklyn-based artist John Edmonds, a dapper young man contemplates a wooden female figure from the Senufo, an ethnic group in Western Africa known for its sculpture, which is often associated with poro, important men and women's initiation societies.This object—like several featured in Edmonds’ photographs in the exhibition A Sidelong Glance—is from the artist’s own collection. “I began my own collection of African art in an effort to live with objects that were traceable to specific ethnic groups, tribes, and places in Africa,” says Edmonds. “Though research and understanding the provenance of each object is always a part of the acquisition, it never dictates the way the photographs are made. It is essential to me to consider my role as a vessel for understanding these objects in a liminal space between their origins and the new space in which they exist.” ⁠ ⁠ Many of Edmonds’s photographs engage the legacy of work made by artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s who reclaimed African artifacts and aesthetics as a source of inspiration and experimentation. These artists contended with the use of similar objects by European and white American avant-garde artists during the early twentieth century. ⁠ ⁠ This #BlackHistoryMonth, we're examining how Edmonds centers African art in his photography as a site of identity, power, and artistic ingenuity.⁠ ⁠ John Edmonds (American, born 1989).Young man looking at a female sculpture (from the Senufo), 2019. Digital silver gelatin print. Courtesy the artist and Company Gallery」2月7日 23時01分