Photography by Avery Savage

There are certain projects that don’t just speak to identity but ask us to feel through its politics. Patricia Encarnación’s Tropical Limerence, part of The Shed’s Open Call: Portals exhibition (on view through August 24), is one of them. Across ceramic forms, layered video essays, and filmed testimonies, the installation asks us to confront how colonial desire continues to shape how Global Majority communities are seen, consumed, and misinterpreted. Through conversations held in the Dominican Republic, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Barcelona, and New York City, Encarnación creates an embodied archive that blurs the lines between artwork and altar, vulnerability and theory, fracture and sovereignty.

ARTISTS TO KNOW: LE'ANDRA LESEUR

Le’Andra LeSeur is a multidisciplinary artist whose work celebrates Blackness, contemplates the experience of invisibility, and seeks to dismantle and reclaim stereotypes surrounding Black female identity. Le’Andra’s latest multichannel video and performance piece for The Shed’s Open Call, There is no movement without rhythm, dissects the effects rhythm has on the body in its quest for liberation.

identity, genderBianca Jean-PierreJune 15, 2021artists to know, visual storytelling, multidisciplinary, queer artistsComment

PHOTOGRAPHERS TO KNOW: CHARLEE BLACK

Charlee Black is a photographer and creative director based in the Midwest. Charlee’s photography is meant to take up space both physically and figuratively as she encourages BIPOC women to unapologetically command any room. Growing frustrated with the lack of representation of people of color in mainstream branding, Charlee launched Good Friends Studio