THE BLACKNESS SERIES PRINTS

Silkscreen Print on Plike black 330gsm paper

Black ink

680 x 680 mm

Edition of 3 + 1 AP, each print

The great thing is that [Tina M. Campt] makes an observation that the work of so many Black artists today begins from presumption --- that if you want to see the work and understand the work, you have to share their perspective. And I think this is one of the things that certainly I see in The Black Interior, in The Blackness Series --- listening to you describe exactly that process of whoever you are, having to adjust to a position essentially to see what you already see -- Ekow Eshun, Culture writer and curator

Works No. 4, 5 and 7 form part of a new permanent collection of artworks acquired by the Government Art Collection. They are the first iteration of silkscreen prints on paper from The Blackness Series - an ongoing series of numbered text works, commencing in 2016 and continuing to date, documenting historical and contemporary Black-lived experiences alongside broader critical social commentary. The font is typically black typeface on a black background, making the works intentionally arduous to read. Through this technique, the work attempts to accentuate how Black communities are held in the tension between hypervisibility and invisibility in a fractured world. The works become fully legible to read as light reflects and interacts with the work—whether on a digital screen display or with the work itself.