Unpunished – Sue Scott Gallery

“Untitled (emergence)”
performative action
archival pigment print
©2007

“Untitled (thorns)”
performative action
archival pigment print
©2007

The perverted desire for the pornographic manifests itself most significantly, however, in the continued preference in the West for that art from Africa which is easily imaged not as art as we know it, but as a sign of the occult, an inscription of the fantastic.

Even the pricing of contemporary African art and artists on the international art market positions them within the frame of the cheap, pornographic object.

Via: Olu Oguibe: Art, Identity, Boundaries

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