A new Temple University multisite exhibit explores Black history and modern life in North Philly, West Philly, and Germantown.
The work is on view at Temple’s Tyler School of Art until Dec. 7 and will expand to three historically Black Philly neighborhoods this year.
McClodden said she wanted to resist piecing together a cohesive narrative about Bentley. Instead, she sought to lean into the obscurity and explore how queer Black people are archived. McClodden’s North Philly exhibition won’t be found in just one place, though. She shot a video on infrared black-and-white film, showing the area around Temple University where Bentley used to live that has since become Temple buildings. The video will be mounted on the bed of a truck that will circle through the Temple area.
Phillips grew up in Louisiana, where his dad used to work in the prison system. In his hometown, people bought and wore snakeskin belts that were made by incarcerated people. Those experiences stuck with him, and his work since then has explored the American Black experience and how policing, migration, and gentrification interact with the pursuits of Black liberty.
“I’m hoping people ... see themselves in some of the paintings,” he said. “In some of the despair, but at the same time, see a certain level of hope. It’s sort of light at the end of the tunnel.”As Olivier considered what the exhibition for her Germantown neighborhood would be, she said she wanted to do something that would engage her neighbors and community.
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