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Book Review| June 02 2019 Exhibition Review: Leila Weefur: Between Beauty & Horror Leila Weefur: Between Beauty & Horror: Aggregate Space Gallery. Oakland, CA: February 15–March 23, 2019. Roula Seikaly Roula Seikaly Roula Seikaly is a Berkeley-based independent art writer and curator, and senior editor at Humble Arts Foundation. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Roula Seikaly is a Berkeley-based independent art writer and curator, and senior editor at Humble Arts Foundation. Afterimage (2019) 46 (2): 67–70. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.462007 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Roula Seikaly; Exhibition Review: Leila Weefur: Between Beauty & Horror. Afterimage 2 June 2019; 46 (2): 67–70. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2019.462007 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAfterimage Search Leila Weefur is a multimedia artist, writer, and curator based in the Bay Area. Across video, still photography, and artist books, they craft lush metaphors that illuminate blackness as an existential state, and that speak to those whose endurance is daily tested by the world’s judgement, rejection, and insults. Installed at Oakland’s Aggregate Space Gallery earlier this year, Weefur’s Between Beauty & Horror plumbed the cultural messaging that shapes black identity and examined how that messaging is internalized and eventually turned outward. Of late, Weefur’s research and creative practice has centered the blackberry as a symbol of black existence. The earlier combined video and print installation Blackberry Pastorale: Symphony No. 1 (2017) examined the black femme body as it is interpreted based on signs and symbols within a racially coded cultural context. For Between Beauty & Horror, Weefur situated blackberries as symbols of the toxic stereotypes that shape perceptions... You do not currently have access to this content.
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