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STOP PLAYING IN MY FACE! and ICON
September 4, 2019 -March 1, 2020
The exhibition focuses on Newsome’s video works inspired by the origins and continued dynamism of Vogue performance. For over a decade, Newsome has worked with members of the Vogue community, which developed in New York City’s queer ballroom scene of the 1970s. With a particular interest in critiquing the popular appropriation of Vogue in the early 1990s, and with the aim to bring these queer communities of color from the Vogue scene into the institutional space, Newsome creates work that reframes how performers are represented and explores the beauty, agency and complexities of Vogue performance.
In addition to the exhibition, Rashaad’s work is also the main inspiration for MoAD’s 2019 Afropolitan Ball, taking place October 19. The event will feature room projection-mapped in commissioned videos created by Newsome’s studio.
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