Operating at the limits of the image, artists in Countercapture recalibrate the standard representational capture of Blackness. The featured works use redaction variously as material ground, as methodological process, and as fugitive strategy, gesturing toward alternative paradigms for image-making. Countercapture looks at redaction and opacity as aesthetically and politically constructive processes that make-present while refusing transparent access to bodies and subjects, in the vein of a “right to opacity” as articulated by Édouard Glissant.
JOIN US for a performance by artist and poet Jayson P. Smith followed by an exhibition walkthrough by curator Katherine Adams for a deeper look at the works in Countercapture.