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VIDEO: POLITUS (Refined) : What we choose to remember
Tyler Moorehead, 2019. Running time 11:09
Politus is a silent performative exploration of respectability, aspiration and class, through domestic artefact.
The artist uses items to hand to reflect on the reasons why symbols of refinement might be cherished by her mother. In the process of memorialising one symbol of respectability, she is defiling another.
Politus uses the shadow of cut crystal glasses as a symbol to explore patterns of achievement, acceptability and assimilation among the black middle classes.
Seeking to acknowledge her elders, whilst denying the power of these cultural expectations over her own life, she memorialises the image of crystal glasses as symbols of belonging.
Politus was installed at Tate Modern ‘Art on Air’. The piece is a response to Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus in the adjacent Turbine Hall and takes its name from Walker’s insight about ‘what we choose to remember’.
VIDEO: POLITUS (Refined) : What we choose to remember
Tyler Moorehead, 2019. Running time 11:09
Politus is a silent performative exploration of respectability, aspiration and class, through domestic artefact.
The artist uses items to hand to reflect on the reasons why symbols of refinement might be cherished by her mother. In the process of memorialising one symbol of respectability, she is defiling another.
Politus uses the shadow of cut crystal glasses as a symbol to explore patterns of achievement, acceptability and assimilation among the black middle classes.
Seeking to acknowledge her elders, whilst denying the power of these cultural expectations over her own life, she memorialises the image of crystal glasses as symbols of belonging.
Politus was installed at Tate Modern ‘Art on Air’. The piece is a response to Kara Walker’s Fons Americanus in the adjacent Turbine Hall and takes its name from Walker’s insight about ‘what we choose to remember’.