A photography lecture featuring Naima Greene will be held on Monday, March 15 at 2:30pm via Zoom.
Meeting ID: 872 8852 3166
Passcode: 179969
This is a CLUE event.
Do you want to catch an exhibition of Naima Green’s work? Naima Green Brief & Drenching @ Fotografiska New York .
For more info: https://www.fotografiska.com/nyc/exhibition/brief-drenching/ .
Naima Green’s photography conducts experiments in being. Her portrait-making begins in the form of an invitation to her sitter, to co-create a context and allow themselves to evolve within it.
Her most recent experiment pictures the transient self at play. Through Pur·suit, a deck of 54 playing cards featuring photographs of queer womxn, trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people, Green photographed more than 100 sitters in nine days to create an object through which both play and contemporary documentation cohere. In this co-collaboration with Toby Kaufmann, Green inverts hierarchies of power that often exclude stories and contributions by Black people and people of color. Green honors her community, which deserves to be seen and remembered.
In Brief & Drenching, Green moves from a traditional photography studio into the stage of her apartment. Within this space, the artists’ short film, The Intimacy of before, upsets the comfortable domestic setting with a sequence of unnerving intimate confrontations. Further into the gallery, a birthing stool made by the artist in collaboration with Ivan Ontiveros is presented as an object of support to brace oneself against this scene of imbalance. The theme of brevity is multifold, referencing the instantaneous nature of the making of an image or a quick interaction between a group of people, and though however brief, these actions can create infinite and rippling effects, memories, and a long-lasting sense of community for her sitters.
By the Division of Academic Affairs
