surviving as the anomaly created by white supremacy (re-imagined)

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surviving as the anomaly created by white supremacy (re-imagined)

Object NameInstallation

Series

Part of Related Tactic's multi-stage project "Disclosure: The Whiteness of Glass"

Design Collaborative(data visualization) Related Tactics (founded 2015)

Artist(studio response) vanessa german (American, b. 1976)

Artist(instructions) Ché Rhodes (American, born 1973)

Studio Tyler School of Art

Made FromDigital Prints, Glass, Plaster, Carbon, Plaster Bandage, Styrofoam, Graphite and Charcoal on Paper, Shirt

Date2021-2022

Place MadeUnited States, PA, Philadelphia

TechniqueAssembled, blown, burnt

SizeVaried

Accession Number2023.4.5

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Disclosure: The Whiteness of Glass (Center for Craft)

Disclosure: The Whiteness of Glass (Houston Center for Contemporary Craft)

Disclosure: The Whiteness of Glass

Not On View

Physical DescriptionInstallation, "surviving as the anomaly created by white supremacy (re-imagined)". Black and colorless glasses, digital prints, plaster, carbon, plaster bandage, styrofoam, graphite and charcoal on paper, burnt shirt; assembled, hand-blown. Multipart installation consisting of several three-dimensional objects and works on paper arranged on a table. A selection of drawings and prints arranged on the front half of a table, behind and on top of which are three-dimensional objects arranged in the following order from left to right: an opaque black glass bottle, a plaster bust covered in black carbon residue that sits beneath a colorless blown glass form reminiscent of a face jug or bell jar, a suite of three opaque glass bottles positioned in front of a folded burnt remnant of red and black buffalo plaid shirt fabric with buttons, an opaque black glass bust, a suite of two opaque black glass bottles, an opaque glass bust resting on its side, a plaster bust covered in black carbon reside situated inside an oversized cylindrical colorless glass handled cup, and a plaster bust covered in black carbon residue with three opaque glass bottles positioned overtop alternating points of bust’s hair; the final bust is positioned behind a small piece of irregularly-shaped opaque black glass.
Provenance

Source Related Tactics (founded 2015)