Sistah Friends Project

Sistah Friends is an international arts initiative that recognizes and celebrates that the African diaspora spans the world. Using contemporary art practices, we form bonds and communities with our sistahs at home and abroad. Through self-portraiture and oral narrative projects, Sistah Friends creates a multimedia platform for honest and autonomous productions and reproductions of black women. The aim is to collaboratively reimagine, repoliticize, and recontextualize the black female form in order to salvage a complex history and to strengthen connectivity.

Sheila Pree Bright: Plastic Bodies

the epitome of unrealistic and eurocentric female representation, Matell’s Barbie, is revisited and remixed in Sheila Pree Bright’s Plastic Bodies series (2003).

through photoshop, Bright blurs expectation and body to ask you “who/what is real”… an eye trick infused with politics, socialization, and commodity.

//salome