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Jan6

Gestures of Refusal: Black Photography and Visual Culture is an exercise in the unconventional and the splendid—bringing attention to the ways that contemporary photographers wield the visual power of the camera to discern, behold, celebrate, and document people, places, events, collective memories, encounters, and other ever-present moments of blackness that refuse erasure.

From the invisible to the obvious, the mundane to the spectacular, the overlooked to the known, the erased to the remembered—the artists in this exhibition explore a range of photographic frequencies, styles, tenses, punctuation, and rhythmic scores creating new visual vocabularies for futurity.

Curated by Shana M. griffin, Gestures of Refusal will feature five immersive installations and over 180 photographs and objects covering a spectrum of narrative styles, compositions, techniques, and approaches, showcasing the photographs of nearly one hundred contemporary Black photographers with ties to New Orleans from the 1950s to the present.