It’s clear to anyone paying attention that our identities inform our experience sand therefore the work we produce but what this series made me think deeply about was how hierarchies of identities play out in public settings. For example, the museum guard. There are multiple identities at play here: African American man, museum guard and artists. What’s interesting to consider is how our different identities allow us to assume different authorities over others. In this case, as an artist he is able to comment authority over spectators because he has assumed knowledge over the artwork due to his skills and experiences, however that changes once he allows a different identity to dominate
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