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“I am greeted by a frog holding aloft a serving tray. Its head is cocked a bit to the side, elbow bent and hand on the hip. Less ready to please, more this again? The image is surreal, but it’s no escapist fantasy. The figure calls to mind a lawn jockey or a blackamoor—both statues of servitude with histories steeped in racism. Welcome to Ajay Kurian’s world of Polyphemus.
In playing with the tension between the visible and the invisible, Ellis’s work invokes a dominant theme in the rhetoric
In Church’s world, bodies are much more likely to remain isolated than to touch.
After ten years of bringing non-narrative and experimental film to Baltimore audiences, Margaret Rorison’s Sight Unseen series is coming to