Date of Submission
Spring 2018
Academic Programs and Concentrations
Photography; Human Rights
Project Advisor 1
Thomas Keenan
Project Advisor 2
Tim Davis
Abstract/Artist's Statement
The Unveiling of Us is an affirmation by, of and for wom^n of color. In this collaboration, we - subject and photographer - seek to reclaim the performance, production and beauty of individual identities that are informed by collective pasts. Everyday acts of performance are emphasized in these images through objects and gestures that reference the day to day practices of black and brown wom^n based on our histories, our cultures and our senses of self. This is our space to claim: the viewer looks, but the subjects hold the gaze as they declare power through a notion of beauty. Reflecting on this work, I am questioning how we come to understand beauty as a construction, an aesthetic and as a political proclamation.
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Recommended Citation
Parra, Alexis, "The Unveiling of Us" (2018). Senior Projects Spring 2018. 351.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2018/351
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