BLACK SKIN,
WHITE MASKS
Inspired by the narrative of
Frantz Fanon's writingS + TAKASHI MURAKAMI'S PORTRAITS,
this painting speaks on the decolonisation of the mind.
ACRYLIC ON CANVAS | 60 X 90 CM
VISUAL IDENTITY
/ STENCIL ART /
DEVELOPMENT
FRANTZ FANON
Black Skin, White Masksproduced. applies a historical critique on the complex ways in which identity, particularly Blackness, is constructed and produced.
Fanon confronts complex formations of colonised psychic constructions of Blackness and he applies psychoanalysis to explain the feelings of dependency and inadequacy that black people experience.
Fanon often regulated his imagination of Blackness by his willingness to merely "envisage" through a rubric of the cover of his own skin, which is yet another form of enclosure.
The design inspiration for the painting forges upon Artist Takashi Murakami's animated design aesthetic and one of his most renown masterpieces Split (2012) to emulate the irony in the subject title.
