Laylah Ali
dal 13/3/2002 al 21/5/2002
Segnalato da
13/3/2002
Laylah Ali
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York
For Projects 75, artist Laylah Ali has created her first artist/comic book, composed entirely of her trademark figures engaged in acts of violence. Borrowing heavily from the traditional comic book in form, Ali's project departs completely from the genre in content.
Projects 75
For Projects 75, artist Laylah Ali has created her first artist/comic book, composed entirely of her trademark figures engaged in acts of violence.
Borrowing heavily from the traditional comic book in form, Ali's project departs completely from the genre in content.
Stock characters, among them
soldiers, ecumenical figures, prisoners and police; doctors and patients, slaves and masters, are separated into panels that normally permit an orderly
progression of story. Her substantial themes: individual and group identity, politics and power, race and class, all served up as disarmingly naïve fare,
the effect of which is to replace the viewer's initial amusement with shock as the scene is slowly digested.
Organized by Kristin Helmick-Brunet, Assistant Curator, Department of Drawings.
Projects 75: Laylah Ali is available for $2.00 at The MoMA stores.
Image: Laylah Ali. Untitled. 2002. Image created
digitally, dimensions variable.Courtesy the artist
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