When worn as a shawl, InVisible provides a symbolic skin of protection against pervasive cultural supremacy. The morningstar form is an expression of cultural power which is used here to transform.
pieced organza
60" x 60"
2017
Is white cultural supremacy, which expropriates and erases other cultures, a translucent veil so permeating it's nearly invisible to those living under it?
As a Dakota person, I experience cultural supremacy as a tool of the dominant culture that sets itself as the standard, forces assimilation and constantly perpetuates itself to reinforce structures and institutions which maintain a limited picture of reality.
As a Dakota person, I experience cultural supremacy as a tool of the dominant culture that sets itself as the standard, forces assimilation and constantly perpetuates itself to reinforce structures and institutions which maintain a limited picture of reality.
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| photos by Zach Jama and Gary Zhexi Zhang |
The white gossamer fabric of this shawl is nearly transparent, but as it moves, it reflects rays of light in a full spectrum of colors, which affirms its self-possessed strength of presence. It is a reminder that other realities are possible.
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