Awol Erizku Ethiopian-American, b. 1988
Love is Bond (Young Queens), 2018-20
Lightbox
101.6 x 81.3 cm; (40 x 32 in.)
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
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The work comes from a project Awol did for The New Yorker, profiling the legendary costume designer Ruth E. Carter who has worked on all of Spike Lee’s films, “Black...
The work comes from a project Awol did for The New Yorker,
profiling the legendary costume designer Ruth E. Carter who has worked on all
of Spike Lee’s films, “Black Panther”, “Malcom X”, “Amistad”, “Selma” and more;
see here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/10/ruth-e-carters-threads-of-history.
In this shoot he used her actual costumes and reimagined them using his
own unique lexicon and stage setting. In this work he depicts a group of
young girls skipping around a Nefertiti bust in their ‘Sunday Best’ – the actual
dresses worn in the movie “Selma” by the four girls playing those involved in
the 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama.
profiling the legendary costume designer Ruth E. Carter who has worked on all
of Spike Lee’s films, “Black Panther”, “Malcom X”, “Amistad”, “Selma” and more;
see here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/10/ruth-e-carters-threads-of-history.
In this shoot he used her actual costumes and reimagined them using his
own unique lexicon and stage setting. In this work he depicts a group of
young girls skipping around a Nefertiti bust in their ‘Sunday Best’ – the actual
dresses worn in the movie “Selma” by the four girls playing those involved in
the 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama.