In Their Own Form

“In Their Own Form seeks to illuminate the myriad ways blackness might hope to exist without the imposition of oppression, racism and stereotypes ever-present in Western cultures, mediated through Afrofuturist themes including time-travel and escapism. Afrofuturism refers to a cross-disciplinary genre that combines science fiction, Afrocentrism, fantasy, technology, and non-Western mythologies as an intellectual and artistic strategy to reimagine and repurpose the fraught past, present, and future of the transnational black experience.

Bringing together 13 artists and 33 photographic and video works that negotiate a range of Afro-Diasporic experiences, In Their Own Form prefaces personhood, both fantastical and actual, over perceived realities. Artists include Alun Be, Kudzanai Chiurai, Jim Chuchu, Teju Cole, Ayana V. Jackson, Mohau Modisakeng, Fabrice Monteiro, Zanele Muholi, Aida Muluneh, Paulo Nazareth, Zohra Opoku, Alexis Peskine, and Mary Sibande.”

-Sheridan Tucker Anderson

In Their Own Form, Museum of Contemporary Photography
In Their Own Form, Museum of Contemporary Photography
In Their Own Form, Museum of Contemporary Photography
In Their Own Form, Museum of Contemporary Photography
Mohau Modisakeng, Endabeni 1
Mohau Modisakeng, Endabeni 1
In Their Own Form, Zanele Muholi
In Their Own Form, Museum of Contemporary Photography
In Their Own Form, Jim Chuchu
In Their Own Form, Fabrice Monteiro
Mohau Modisakeng, Endabeni 1
Mohau Modisakeng, Passage
Mohau Modisakeng, Passage
Mohau Modisakeng, Passage
Mohau Modisakeng, Passage
Mohau Modisakeng, Passage
Mohau Modisakeng, Passage
Mohau Modisakeng, Passage
Mohau Modisakeng, Passage
Teju Cole, Black Paper
In Their Own Form, Paulo Nazareth
Zohra Opoku, Rhododendron
In Their Own Form, Museum of Contemporary Photography
In Their Own Form, Museum of Contemporary Photography
Zohra Opoku, Rhododendron
In Their Own Form, Museum of Contemporary Photography
In Their Own Form, Museum of Contemporary Photography
In Their Own Form, Museum of Contemporary Photography
Alun Be, Edification Series
Alun Be, Edification Series
In Their Own Form, Museum of Contemporary Photography
Alexis Peskine, Aljana Moons
Alexis Peskine, Aljana Moons I
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