Place:
Antigua Oficina de Correos y Telégrafos
Miscegenated Family Album, 1980-1994
Miscegenated Family Album is a 1994 photo-installation of cibachrome diptychs. Originating from O'Grady's 1980 performance work
Nefertiti/Devonia Evangeline, this diptych comes from a 16-part photographic series, in which the artist juxtaposes appropriated images from her family history with images of iconic sculptures from ancient Egypt. The pairs of images draw uncanny aesthetic parallels, while weaving together narratives which connect personal stories with historical events.
Lorraine O'Grady
1934.
Lives and works in New York . Lorraine O'Grady is a New York-based artist and critic whose installations, performances and textual works address issues of Diaspora, hybridity and black female subjectivity. Throughout the 1980s, O'Grady lent a voice to the new wave of feminism that took into account perspectives that were under-represented during the feminist movements of the 1970s. Through her art and activism, O'Grady has challenged racist and sexist ideologies. Her performances and photo installations combine opposition to philosophies of division and exclusion, and humanist studies of women throughout history. O'Grady's work has appeared in numerous exhibitions, including at the Kunsthalle Basel; Artpace San Antonio; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Colorado; and The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota. Her work has appeared at the 2010 Whitney Biennial and was featured in the groundbreaking survey WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (2007). O'Grady's work is in the permanent collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; The Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Massachusetts; and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Connecticut. For Manifesta 8, O'Grady presents a work linking her family history to images of iconic sculpture from ancient Egypt.
