Teeth, gums, machines, future, society
In 2016, Lili Reynaud Dewar went to Memphis, where Martin Luther King was assassinated in the 1968 sanitation strike led by African- American workers, to make the video Teeth, Gums, Machine, Future, Society. The resulting installation hinges on two references: the Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway, where the cyborg is an expression of the intersection between class, race, and gender, and its current manifestation which is a person who wears a grill, a dental prothesis made of precious metal popular in hip-hop culture. In this work, made in collaboration with four artists from stand-up, noise music and contemporary art, Lili Reynaud Dewar takes as a point of departure her white European identity: she reveals the process of cultural appropriation, the construction of African- American empowerment, and the vulnerability of the body and its representation in public spaces.
Exhibitions
Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris (France)
from 09 Dec 2016 to 14 Jan 2017
Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hambourg (Allemagne)
from 24 Sep to 20 Nov 2016