2021/11/05

American Artist’s Stack of iPhones Decodes the Tech World Through the Lens of Blackness

● 05/11/2021
“Yet, beneath the semblance of all this connectivity, the Black community remains fractured and dispossessed. The artist also offers an underlying critique of technology’s need to be ever-sleeker: what is all this shine glossing over?”
– Arts writer Mebrak Tareke, on American Artist’s Untitled (Too Thick) II (2021), “a tall, lean stack of used iPhone cases topped by a bulging blob of asphalt” on view as part of the solo show “Black Gooey Universe” at LABOR, Mexico City
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