#WhileBlack
Artist
Dread Scott
(American, born 1965)
Date2018
Mediumscreenprint diptych
Dimensionsdisplayed: 152 × 112 cm (59 13/16 × 44 1/8 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Markingsl.l. in image: Lower East Side Printshop Chop
Credit LineMuseum purchase through the estate of Blake Robinson
Terms
Object number2021.81
Label TextScott works in a long tradition of artists who employ text as a form of protest. In dialogue with one of WAM’s curators, Scott wrote about his use of text in #WhileBlack:
“Each of the two prints in the diptych #WhileBlack are one work, but they are not one list spread across two pages. The left side is all things that Black people were doing for which a white person called the police to have armed men come to harass and potentially kill a Black person, or in some cases were things which Black people were doing where the police intervened without being called. They are all referring to specific incidents, even if that incident never became a hashtag.” He added, “I ‘invented’ the hashtag in many cases, but the events were real. The right side is all things that Black people fantasize about or things that non-Black people assume that Black people fantasize about.”On View
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