Bodies of Work

56 mins 36s, 2018

the artist directed Bodies of Work for their Honors thesis. Situated in the political temporality of the Trump presidency, this documentary piece uses the practices of four visual artists and one art historian as a scaffolding to discuss the perception and performance of race, gender, class and sexuality with an intersectional approach. 

Artists have always acted as mirrors for society. If we take the time to look before art becomes history, what might we learn about ourselves?